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Treatment for abdominal pain
Last reviewed: 06.07.2025
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The therapeutic tasks of a general practitioner for abdominal pain are reduced to: eliminating the cause of abdominal pain, alleviating pain, changing lifestyle, determining clinical cases when a referral to a specialist for further examination is needed, clarifying whether there is a connection between taking any medications and symptoms of dyspepsia, monitoring the level of hemoglobin in the blood.
Non-drug methods: stop smoking, change your lifestyle, limit alcohol consumption, eat small meals, educate the patient about the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract (including the topic of normal bowel movements).
Start drug treatment only after a full examination of the patient; antacids are prescribed in the presence of heartburn; laxatives - if bowel function is not regulated by non-drug means; antispasmodics, M-anticholinergics (scopolamine butylbromide-spasmobru) and treatment of the underlying disease.
A referral to a specialist is necessary if the pain is localized:
- in the right iliac region (with signs of peritoneal irritation);
- in the lower abdomen (with dysuria and menstrual irregularities in girls and women);
- in the epigastric region, of unclear genesis (acute cholecystitis, pancreatitis, abdominal myocardial infarction, etc.) - the treatment has not produced the expected results; the diagnosis is unclear; blood in the stool; a tumor in the abdominal cavity; there are signs of peritonitis.