What does the pain when pressing the left side of the abdomen relate to?

Under normal circumstances, when we have stomach pain, we feel the pain in the middle. However, some people experience pain when pressing the left side of the abdomen, and do not feel pain when they do not press. At this time, many people begin to pay attention to it and think that this may be related to some disease. First of all, we can consider gastrointestinal functional diseases, small intestine or colon diseases, the more common ones are intestinal obstruction or appendicitis, and also the invasion of peritonitis.

We should pay attention to the possible causes of left abdominal pain. The answer to this question is as follows: Abdominal pain is very common in daily life, and the causes are very complicated. Pathologies of abdominal organs and diseases outside the abdominal cavity, such as chest diseases and spinal injuries, can cause abdominal pain. Abdominal pain can be divided into acute and chronic. Acute abdominal pain has an acute onset and a short course; chronic abdominal pain has a slow onset and a long course.

Common diseases that cause abdominal pain in the family

(1) Gastric and duodenal ulcers, gastritis, and gastric cancer.

(2) Diseases of the small intestine and colon, including common intestinal obstruction, appendicitis, enteritis, dysentery, and intestinal parasitic diseases.

(3) Biliary tract and pancreatic diseases such as cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, pancreatitis, and pancreatic head cancer. (4) Acute and chronic hepatitis, liver cancer.

(5) Peritonitis, often secondary to gastrointestinal perforation and splenic rupture.

(6) Abdominal pain caused by chest organs, such as early lobar pneumonia and acute inferior myocardial infarction, is often misdiagnosed as abdominal organ disease.

(7) Urinary and reproductive organ diseases, such as kidney and ureteral stones, ectopic pregnancy, salpingitis, ovarian cyst torsion, acute cystitis, urinary tract infection, dysmenorrhea, etc.

(8) Abdominal pain caused by systemic diseases, such as diabetes.