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The stomach or belly hurts also toshnit

 
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Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
 
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It hurts the stomach and vomits - what are the causes of these symptoms and what can be done to neutralize them, this issue often worries both women and men, regardless of age or social status.

Causes and pathogenesis

When the stomach hurts and vomits, it indicates that the pathological process is taking place inside the body, because pain is a signal from irritated nerve endings, which is a great variety in the epigastric region. Nausea is an indication that the body is trying to get rid of intoxication. The causes of the appearance of pain in the abdomen, accompanied by nausea, may be as follows: 

  • Inflammation of the vermicular element of the caecum is an appendix. Appendicitis is one of the most common causes of pain and nausea in the abdomen. The pain is initially manifested implicitly, it is aching, dull. The appetite decreases, there may be a rise in temperature and an increase in pain, localized, as a rule, in the right upper or lower abdominal region. 
  • Adnexitis. It is an inflammatory, pathological process that affects the pelvic organs in women. Pain can alternate right to the left, except for nausea accompanied by a rise in body temperature. Often the pain is cramping. 
  • Abdominal pain and nausea can signal liver disease. Hepatic pathologies are not always accompanied by localization of pain in the right region under the ribs, if in addition to the liver the pancreas and gallbladder is inflamed, the clinical picture can be blurred. 
  • Hernia is restrained. The pain in such cases is diffuse, that is, the pain sensation is distributed throughout the abdomen. This makes diagnosis difficult, since pain is not localized. Supplementing the clinical picture can be nausea, vomiting, flatulence and constipation. 
  • Kidney pathologies also manifest themselves subjective complaints - it hurts the stomach and makes you sick. The kidneys are not always sore from the back, as is commonly believed. Quite often painful sensations are localized on the sides of the abdomen. Nausea, as a rule, is not associated with eating, it manifests spontaneously and often reaches vomiting. Kidney pathologies are accompanied by an increase in body temperature, chills, violation of urination. 
  • Intoxication of the body due to food poisoning. In addition, what hurts the stomach and vomits, in such cases diarrhea and increased body temperature are unavoidable. 
  • Ulcerous processes in the gastrointestinal tract. The stomach or belly hurts and toshnit is one of signs of a dysfunction of bodies of digestion. Often, this phenomenon is accompanied by heartburn, constipation or diarrhea, eructation. Pain can be as aching, undeveloped, and very intense, acute. 
  • Physiological causes - pregnancy, psycho-emotional stress, overeating. These reasons do not pose a threat to health and life, in contrast to the above. Pregnancy sooner or later ends with the happy moment of a baby's birth, overeating can be regulated by a normal diet, stresses survive and react with the help of relaxation.

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Who to contact?

The stomach or belly hurts and toshnit: in what cases it is necessary to address to the doctor or to cause the urgent help?

  • If the pain is acute and does not stop within an hour, nausea passes into indomitable vomiting, urgent medical attention is required. Possible acute renal failure, appendicitis, perforation of the ulcer
  • If the stomach hurts and vomits and these symptoms are not acute, but continue for more than one day, you need to see a doctor. Possible secretive intoxication processes, especially they are dangerous for pregnant women and children. 
  • If pain, nausea are accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea, you need to call a doctor or an ambulance to avoid severe dehydration. Possible acute intestinal poisoning or inflammation of the appendix. 
  • If cramping pain in the lower abdomen, accompanied by nausea and vomiting, does not last for one to two hours, you need to call an ambulance. Possible ectopic pregnancy, rupture of the ovarian cyst.

My stomach aches and it makes me sick: what can not be done before the ambulance arrives?

You can not put warmers on your stomach or on your back. This can provoke rupture of inflamed cavities or extensive diffuse intoxication. 

It is advisable not to take painkillers, as their action can distort the clinical picture of the symptomatology (in extreme cases of intolerable pain you can take a no-shpu). 

Massages or rubbing of the abdomen are unacceptable, it can also provoke the rupture of internal abscesses and the spread of toxins throughout the abdominal cavity.

The main rule for nausea and abdominal pain is the rule of symptomatic dynamics in the first two hours. If the pain does not pass and becomes intense, the body temperature rises, and nausea passes into vomiting, you can not lose a minute - you should call for emergency help.

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