Pain in the lower left side of the abdomen

Abdominal pain is a very common symptom, but if it persists or is severe, you should pay more attention. Abdominal pain may be caused by a tumor or gastrointestinal inflammation. You must go to the hospital for diagnosis and do not delay. And you should choose suitable medicines according to your own body, choose some with less irritation, and try not to choose hormones. If you have pain in the lower left part of the abdomen, you can massage the painful area with your hands to relieve it.

Abdominal pain is a common clinical symptom and also the reason that prompts patients to seek medical treatment. Abdominal pain is mostly caused by some kind of strong stimulation or damage to the abdominal tissues or organs, but can also be caused by chest diseases and systemic diseases. In addition, abdominal pain is a subjective feeling. The nature and intensity of abdominal pain are affected not only by the condition of the disease and the degree of stimulation, but also by neurological and psychological factors. That is, patients have different sensitivities to pain stimuli. The abdominal pain caused by the same lesion in different patients or in the same patient at different times may differ in nature, intensity and duration.

1. The nature and degree of abdominal pain The nature of abdominal pain is related to the organ where the lesion is located and the nature of the lesion. For example, colic often indicates obstruction of hollow organs; bloating and pain are often caused by increased tension of the visceral capsule, traction of the mesentery, or flatulence and expansion of hollow organs. The degree of pain is sometimes consistent with the severity of the lesion, but due to individual differences, sometimes the degree of pain does not reflect the extent of the lesion.

2. Location of abdominal pain The surface location of abdominal pain is often related to the segmental distribution of the spinal cord. Usually the location of the pain is the location of the lesion, but some lesions cause pain that radiates to a fixed area. For example, acute cholecystitis can radiate to the right scapula and back, and the pain caused by appendicitis can be transferred from the umbilicus to the right lower abdomen.

3. Accompanying symptoms Abdominal pain accompanied by fever indicates inflammation, connective tissue disease, malignant tumor, etc.; accompanied by vomiting indicates esophageal, stomach or bile duct disease; large amount of vomiting indicates gastrointestinal obstruction; accompanied by diarrhea indicates intestinal inflammation, malabsorption, and pancreatic disease; accompanied by shock and anemia indicates rupture of abdominal organs (such as liver or spleen rupture or ectopic pregnancy rupture), myocardial infarction, pneumonia may also have abdominal pain accompanied by shock, and special vigilance should be taken; accompanied by urgency, frequency, pain, hematuria, etc., indicating possible urinary tract infection or stones; accompanied by gastrointestinal bleeding, such as tarry stools or hematemesis, indicating peptic ulcer or gastritis, etc.; if there is fresh blood in the stool or dark red blood in the stool, it often indicates ulcerative colitis, colon cancer, intestinal tuberculosis, etc.