Why does my stomach hurt when I’m hungry?

Our bodies always have various abnormal symptoms, and when abnormal phenomena occur in the body, it means that the body may be accompanied by other diseases, so when our body shows some symptoms, we must be vigilant and pay more attention. Many people always find that they get stomachaches whenever they are hungry, and think that eating something will make it better, but the effect is not as good as they imagined. So what is going on? Let’s take a look below.

Some people will feel stomach pain or burning when they are hungry. At this time, if they eat some biscuits, steamed buns, etc., the stomach pain and other discomforts will be relieved immediately. Therefore, some people call this hunger-induced stomach discomfort "gluttony disease". In fact, this hunger-induced stomach pain is often a typical clinical manifestation of duodenal bulb ulcer and should be taken seriously.

Duodenal bulb ulcer is the most common type of ulcer disease clinically. Its main clinical manifestation is recurrent hunger stomach pain. Patients often experience pain before each meal and often wake up in the middle of the night due to pain in the empty stomach. They have to get up in the middle of the night to eat something to fill their "hunger" before they can fall asleep peacefully. The reason is that when people are hungry, the empty stomach secretes a large amount of gastric juice, which goes directly into the duodenum without mixing with food. If there is an ulcer in the duodenal bulb, then these gastric acid can stimulate the ulcer wound and cause bursts of pain. If you eat some food or antacids at this time, it can neutralize the large amount of stomach acid in the stomach, reduce the irritation to the ulcer surface, and uncomfortable symptoms such as stomach pain will disappear immediately.

Through the above introduction, we know that stomach pain when hungry is most likely caused by duodenal bulb ulcer, and this disease is unlikely to improve on its own without treatment. Therefore, when this phenomenon occurs, we must pay attention to it and actively treat it.