Frequent abdominal pain
Most people have felt abdominal pain at least once in their lives, but if abdominal pain is repeated more than three times in three consecutive months, the patient may have recurrent abdominal pain (Recurrent abdominal pain) RAP) or chronic, and there are two main types of recurrent abdominal pain: functional pattern, physical pattern, and functional abdominal pain is not yet fully known and accounts for 90% of abdominal pain, Physical abdominal pain accounts for 10% of the causes of recurrent abdominal pain Said that children are often more than suffering from recurrent abdominal pain, especially between the ages of eight and fourteen, and more common among females, while only 2% of adults, mostly women, who suffer from chronic abdominal or recurrent pain.
Symptoms of recurrent abdominal pain
The symptoms of recurrent abdominal pain vary from patient to patient. Even in the patient, the nature of abdominal pain varies from time to time.
- Crying the patient especially if he is a child, and make the patient aberrant and dull.
- Continued abdominal pain from minutes to hours.
- The pain may be severe or mild.
- The possibility of pain associated with eating, and there may be no relationship between pain and eating.
- It may be accompanied by a discharge of the patient, a headache in the head, or pain in other parts of the body such as arms and legs.
- Feelings of pain at any time of the day; at night or day.
- Feelings of pain anywhere in the abdomen, and the place of pain varies by cause.
- Not feeling the usual hunger, but often not accompanied by pain loss of weight.
There are some symptoms that require a doctor’s immediate review:
- Fever.
- Blood associated with exhaustion, stool, or urine.
- Difficulty swallowing.
- Waking up from sleep because of pain.
- Excessive or severe diarrhea or frequent diarrhea.
The symptoms that require a doctor’s review in a few days to a week are:
Causes of recurrent abdominal pain
As mentioned previously, recurrent abdominal pain can be divided into recurrent abdominal pain and recurrent abdominal pain, and their causes are as follows:
Causes of recurrent abdominal pain
It is a real pain experienced by the patient, but occurs without a physical cause, and is not related to the physical changes that occur to the person such as bowel movement, or menstrual cycle, eating, or medication, and can suffer the patient for more than six months. Despite the absence of a real reason for it, the psychological pressure that a person experiences in his life, even in childhood, such as the beginning of the school and trying to attract the attention of the parents at the birth of a brother, along with the genetic readiness, and the personality of the person and suffering from psychological diseases such as depression, , And social conditions in general will play an important role in the emergence of this type of pain. This type of pain is manifested in certain aspects, including:
- Abdominal pain Functional abdominal pain: In this case, the patient suffers from occasional or continuous abdominal pain that is not compatible with any other functional disorder affecting the digestive tract, and is diagnosed only after making sure that there is no other problem causing the pain by conducting the necessary medical evaluation and analysis .
- Abdominal pain syndrome: (Functional abdominal pain syndrome), the nature of this syndrome is not well understood, but it can be said that the syndrome in which the pain occurs in the abdomen sharply affects the activities of the individual daily as a result of the expansion and amplify the sense of pain; the nerves become more responsive to simple pain and longer Duration, the pain continues even after the disappearance of the cause, and this is attributed to psychological factors such as depression and psychological stress in the first place.
- Functional indigestion: (Functional dyspepsia), including postprandial pain syndrome and Epigastric Pain Syndrome. Postpartum pain syndrome is characterized by rapid saturation and fullness after normal meals. These symptoms are repeated several times a week, and the patient may experience excessive burping, bloating in the upper abdomen, and may be accompanied by a feeling of nausea. ) After eating meals. As for the epileptic pain syndrome, the patient suffers from intermittent pain or a burning sensation in the epigastric area located above the stomach. The intensity of the pain is moderate. The pain of this syndrome is related to food. Eating the bait causes pain in some patients and reduces it to others. The pain associated with this syndrome is not less than by showing or removing gases. It should be noted that the person with postpartum pain syndrome may suffer from epilepsy pain syndrome, and vice versa.
Causes of recurrent abdominal pain
The disorders and physical illnesses that can cause recurrent abdominal pain include:
- Childhood Irritable Bowel Syndrome: This is the most common cause of recurrent abdominal pain in children. The child may suffer from constipation most of the time, or diarrhea, or may suffer from both. The abdominal pain is usually associated with a change in the number of children Sometimes the abdominal pain improves after defecation, but the patient may suffer from the feeling of not finishing the defecation after removal even though he spends more time than his peers in the toilet.
- Irritable bowel syndrome in adults; one of the most common disorders of adults.
- Constipation.
- Lactose Intolerance
- Gastroesophgae reflux disease.
- Gastric irritation due to hot foods, soft drinks, Aspirin, or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
- Gallbladder disorders such as cholecystitis.
- Inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn disease).
- Digestive ulcers (peptic ulcer) and certain medications.
- Liver disorders such as hepatitis.
- Parasitic infections, giardiasis, or so-called “beaver fever” (Giardiasis).
Cancers are common causes of recurrent abdominal pain in adult adults such as stomach cancer, pancreatic cancer, colon cancer, ovarian cancer, and menopause increases abdominal pain worse in women with any of the following:
- Irritable bowel syndrome.
- Inflammatory bowel disease.
- Endometriosis.