Stomach

Diarrhea

It is necessary to find out when diarrhea arose, its duration and severity, the circumstances of the onset of the disease (including recent travel, food consumed, water sources and medications taken, as well as any antibiotics during the previous 3 months), abdominal pain and vomiting, frequency and time of bowel movements, changes in the stool (for example, blood admixture, changes in color and consistency, signs of steatorrhea) and related changes in weight and appetite, as well as sudden urge to stool or tenesmus.

Nausea and vomiting

Nausea, an unpleasant feeling of vomiting is an afferent vegetative impulse (including an increase in the parasympathetic tone) of the medullary emetic center. Vomiting - forced removal of gastric contents due to unintentional contraction of the abdominal wall muscles when lowering the stomach bottom and relaxation of the esophageal sphincter

Flatulence (bloating)

Rumination is, as a rule, involuntary regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach (usually 15-30 minutes after eating), which the patient re-chews and in most cases swallows again.

Blood in feces: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Blood in the feces is a very alarming and serious symptom of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (anal zone, anal canal, rectal area).

Psychogenic constipation: causes, symptoms, diagnosis

Constipation (constipation) is a reduction in the act of defecation (once every two days and less often), associated with a slow passage of contents through the intestinal tract and the presence of stasis of stool (coprostasis).

Belching

An eructation is the sudden exhalation of gases from the stomach or esophagus, accompanied by a characteristic sound. Belching is included in the range of phenomena united by the common term "pneumatosis of the stomach".

Nervous vomiting and nausea

Vomiting is the eruption of gastric and esophageal contents through the mouth (sometimes nasal passages) outward. For the first time "nerve vomiting" was described by V. Stiler in 1884. It should be emphasized that for today there is no sufficiently clear and unambiguous description of the clinical picture of this phenomenon within the framework of psychogenic disorders.

Regurgitation of a newborn

Regurgitation with a small amount of air and gastric contents, observed very often in children of the first year of life. This phenomenon, related to the structure of the esophagus and stomach in infants, can accompany every feeding. Over time, regurgitation, as a rule, stops.

Rumination (chewing gum)

Rumination (chewing gum) is a rare but too serious form of chronic regurgitation: it can cause a delay in the growth and pace of the child's psycho-speech and motor development, especially in the second half of the first year of life. With gum, regurgitation, chewing and re-ingestion of food occurs without nausea, but on the contrary, as a definitely pleasant process for the child, eagerly repeated.

Nausea in children

Nausea is an unpleasant sensation in the epigastric region, often accompanied by weakness, dizziness, faintness, pallor of the skin, drooling.

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