What are the symptoms of gastric spasm?

Gastric spasm is actually commonly known as stomach cramps, which is a symptom that many friends with stomach problems will experience. The most obvious symptom of gastric spasm is that the patient feels upper abdominal pain, and in severe cases, vomiting may occur. Friends who suffer from stomach cramps should take stomach medicine in time to relieve the symptoms if they have it. If the cramps are caused by not eating on time, you can eat some mild food appropriately.

Gastrospasm is a twitching of the stomach muscles, a state of strong contraction of the stomach. It is mostly caused by neurological functional abnormalities, but can also be caused by organic gastric diseases. The main symptoms are upper abdominal pain, vomiting, etc. Gastric spasm itself is a symptom. When gastric spasm occurs, the main treatment is symptomatic, relieving spasms, pain and vomiting. If gastric spasm occurs frequently, you should pay attention to finding the cause and treating it from the root.

Clinical manifestations

People who experience gastric spasm mainly experience upper abdominal pain, vomiting, etc. Patients with stomach problems, such as gastric ulcers, stomach cold, gastritis, etc., are very likely to suffer from stomach muscle cramps.

1. Patients often flex their upper limbs or press hard with their fists to relieve pain. The pain often radiates to the left chest, left shoulder blade, and back. At the same time, the rectus abdominis muscle also becomes spasmodic. Or it may be accompanied by nausea, vomiting, or even pale face, cold hands and feet, cold sweat, and even unconsciousness. The symptoms may be relieved after a few minutes or hours due to belching or vomiting. After the pain stops, health returns to normal. The attacks occur several times a day, or once every few days or months.

2. Sudden severe abdominal pain, like the pain of a knife, a needle, burning, or twisting.

3. Neurohormonal effects can cause stomach cramps. Gastric smooth muscle spasm is like a calf cramp. When it occurs, the abdominal pain is unbearable, and in severe cases, nausea and vomiting may occur.

Differential Diagnosis

1. Acute stomach pain

Common cases include acute and chronic gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, and gastric neurosis. It is also seen in diseases such as gastric mucosal prolapse, gastroptosis, pancreatitis, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis. Acute stomach pain comes on suddenly, changes rapidly, and the condition is serious. The patient feels severe stomach pain, accompanied by hiccups, bloating, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, chest tightness and other symptoms.

2. Chronic stomach pain

It is common in chronic gastritis, which refers to various chronic inflammatory lesions of the gastric mucosa caused by different causes. It is a common disease, and its incidence rate ranks first among various stomach diseases. Since the widespread use of fiber endoscopy, the understanding of this disease has been significantly improved. Chronic gastritis often causes a certain degree of gastric mucosal atrophy (loss of mucosal function) and metaplasia, often involving the cardia, accompanied by loss of G cells and decreased gastrin secretion. It can also involve the gastric body, accompanied by loss of acid-secreting glands, leading to a decrease in gastric acid, pepsin and intrinsic factors.

3. Gastrointestinal flatulence

Due to gastrointestinal obstruction or obstruction caused by various reasons, gastrointestinal gas cannot be discharged from the body with gastrointestinal peristalsis, and accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract, which is called gastrointestinal flatulence. Flatulence can be either functional or organic. For example, irritable bowel syndrome and gastroparesis caused by diabetes can cause gastrointestinal bloating to become functional bloating. Pyloric obstruction and intestinal obstruction are mostly caused by organic bloating. It often coexists with constipation.