13/11/2021
5 typical symptoms of patients with stomach pain
1. Epigastric pain
This is a common sign in patients with stomach pain.
Severe abdominal pain does not appear with epigastric pain. The location of stomach pain can be from the abdomen to the chest or spread to the back; usually appear in one to two weeks in the early stages of the disease and recur again and again. When the weather changes or the seasons change, the pain will reappear. If this condition persists, the patient will suffer from constant pain.
For patients with stomach ulcers, when eating food, they will feel pain in the epigastrium
2 Eat less
Patients with stomach pain often have signs of poor appetite expressed by reduced food intake or poor appetite.
The reason is because food is digested slowly, after eating, the patient feels bloated, full, feeling heavy and warm.
After eating, the patient feels epigastric pain, burning in the epigastrium, then spreading to the sternum and causing nausea.
3 gas, heartburn
This is a very important symptom of stomach pain. Heartburn, belching cause discomfort for the patient, affecting the patient's daily life.
The cause of this phenomenon is due to a disordered stomach function, so food is difficult to digest, leading to fermentation. The patient will feel a bitter or sour taste when food or slightly up the throat but only halfway up, at this time the patient will feel pain in the breastbone area or behind the breastbone.
4 Feeling nauseous, vomiting
This is a manifestation of a disease such as acute gastritis, peptic ulcer disease, gastric bleeding or possibly stomach cancer. When the patient vomits a lot, it will lead to consequences such as tearing the lining of the esophagus, seriously affecting health.
Besides, vomiting a lot causes dehydration and electrolytes in the gastric juice to occur. More severe can be low blood pressure, cardiovascular collapse. Patients with rapid weight loss lead to anemia, edema...
5 Gastrointestinal bleeding
Blood that flows out of the walls of blood vessels into the lumen of the digestive tract is called gastrointestinal bleeding. This sign is very serious, it can be life-threatening in a very short time. Therefore, when seeing these signs, the patient should be taken to a medical facility immediately for prompt treatment.
When gastrointestinal bleeding, there will be the following manifestations: vomiting fresh blood or black blood, blood in the stool is bright red or black. Patients will feel dizzy, dizzy, and low in blood pressure when in acute blood loss.
When signs of gastrointestinal bleeding appear, it is most likely a manifestation of diseases such as: acute gastritis due to drug use, peptic ulceration of the stomach and duodenum, ruptured esophageal veins due to liver disease.... More serious is stomach cancer.
When seeing any of the above signs, the patient needs to go to the hospital for examination, diagnosis and timely treatment to avoid dangerous complications later.
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