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Why does the navel hurt?
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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To find out why the navel is hurting, it is necessary to take into account all the accompanying signs for a timely and accurate diagnosis of the disease. Based on the complete clinical picture, the specialist first of all differentiates between viral and bacteriological infections.
Why does the navel hurt and what kind of illnesses cause pain in the navel?
- Enteritis - disorders in the functioning of the intestine, associated with the inflammatory process in the small intestine. Sometimes this disease is accompanied by a malfunction in the work of the stomach and inflammation of the large intestine. Concomitant signs - a feeling of nausea, often accompanied by vomiting, diarrhea, frequent rumblings in the abdomen, pain spasmodic, a feeling of weakness, temperature. In the process of palpation, the patient feels pain in the epigastric region. With timely treatment, the outcome of the disease is positive. As a treatment, gastric lavage is prescribed with sodium hydrogen carbonate, for the emptying of the intestine, patients take castor oil or magnesium sulfate. In the first day, the patient is shown absolute fasting and abundant fluid intake. When complications occur, injections of sodium chloride or glucose, as well as caffeine. Additionally appoint festal, linex, lactovite. To prevent this disease, you must follow the rules of hygiene, wash vegetables and fruits before consumption, to balance nutrition.
- Gastroenteritis is a disease that can manifest as a result of the reaction of the body to unusual food for it, the use of contaminated products or water, and as a result of side effects when taking medications. Current symptoms - pain in the navel, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, flatulence. In such cases, you should stop taking food and water and seek help from a doctor, especially if the symptoms do not disappear within 24 hours.
- Enterocolitis is a simultaneous inflammatory process of the small and large intestine. Such pathology can arise as a result of intestinal infections, as a result of malnutrition, the adoption of acute and fatty foods, alcoholic beverages, prolonged intake of antibiotics, allergies to food, etc. Symptoms - abdominal pain, navel, flatulence, loose stools. Most often, the pain is localized in the navel, but it can also have a diffuse character. In the treatment should be abandoned products that irritate the gastric mucosa, recommended frequent drinking, taking vitamin-mineral complexes, herbs, as well as a sparing diet.
- Acute appendicitis is a pathology that causes pain, which is felt first in the epigastric region, then can concentrate near the navel or spread throughout the stomach, later localizing in its right half. When probing, the patient experiences a piercing pain. The temperature may rise, the pulse of the pulse may become more frequent, nausea and vomiting may appear. This condition requires immediate surgery.
- Hernia in the navel - characterized by such attendant signs as acute intense pain, nausea, vomiting, lack of stool. At the location of the hernia, a seal is felt, which in no case should you attempt to direct yourself. In this situation, an emergency surgery is indicated.
- Diverticulitis of the intestine - the presence of protrusions in the walls of the colon. The main manifestations: pain in the navel, as well as when probing the abdomen from the left side, fever, flatulence, rumbling in the abdomen, lack of stool. If there are no complications, treatment begins with the normalization of the stool, a therapeutic diet is prescribed, and antispasmodics are taken. Surgical intervention is indicated if the conservative treatment is ineffective.
- Abdominal migraine - in most cases occurs in children and adolescents. The pain is quite intense, diffuse, can be localized near the navel, the limbs pale and become cold, diarrhea, nausea, vomiting. Treatment can be as follows: inside use a tincture of valerian at the rate of 1 drop for 1 year of life, as well as a preparation of phenobarbital.
- Volvulus. Symptoms: Persistent or cramping pain in the abdomen, mainly in the right half or in the navel, vomiting, excessive gas formation, constipation. The disease begins acutely. With this pathology, siphon and high enemas or surgery are shown.
Diagnosis of the disease
To find out why the navel hurts, besides probing and personal examination by a doctor, the delivery of blood and blood tests is assigned, irrigoscopy (x-ray of the intestine filled with a special substance with enema), colonoscopy is a direct examination of the rectum.
[Treatment
If you have a pain in the navel, treatment is prescribed, based on the current symptoms and the overall picture of the disease. With enteritis, enterocolitis, gastroenteritis the patient is prescribed therapeutic diets, the refusal from acute and fatty foods is recommended, the use of spasmolytic drugs (for example, no-shpy), regular copious drinking, vitamin-mineral complexes and herbal medicine is indicated. With such pathologies as acute appendicitis, intestinal diverticulitis, navel hernia, surgical intervention is necessary. To know exactly why the navel is hurting, seek advice from a gastroenterologist or therapist.