Is gastric perforation serious? What are the symptoms of gastric perforation?

Gastric perforation is a common stomach disease in daily life. When the disease occurs, patients often experience severe abdominal pain, which looks particularly painful. At this time, many people will have this question: Is gastric perforation serious? In fact, gastric perforation has a great impact on people’s health. Let us take a closer look at how serious gastric perforation is!

Is gastric perforation serious? But it is certain that gastric perforation is very painful. We have all experienced oral ulcers. Imagine that when oral ulcers become serious to a certain extent, a hole is pierced in the mouth. How painful it is. So what are the symptoms of gastric perforation? What should we pay attention to in diet after gastric perforation surgery? Let's take a look below!

Gastric perforation is the most serious complication of gastric ulcer. The main reason for gastric perforation is that we do not treat the ulcer but instead overeat, which causes gastric perforation.

The patient suddenly develops severe abdominal pain, which initially begins in the upper abdomen or perforation site and is often like a knife or burning pain. It is generally continuous and the pain quickly spreads to the entire abdomen.

The most common cause of gastric perforation is peptic ulcer. As the ulcer continues to deepen, it penetrates the muscle layer, the serosa, and finally the stomach or duodenal wall, causing perforation.

Other complications may occur after gastric perforation, such as chronic gastric perforation, which will affect our gastrointestinal colon. More seriously, if our stomach and other organs are adhered after gastric ulcer, it will cause suppuration around the site of gastric perforation.

Symptoms

1. Abdominal pain

Sudden onset of severe abdominal pain is the first, most frequent and important symptom of gastric perforation. The pain initially begins in the upper abdomen or perforation site, often with a knife-like or burning pain, which is generally continuous, but may also worsen in fits. The pain quickly spreads throughout the abdomen and may spread to the shoulders as a tingling or sore feeling.

2. Shock symptoms

In the early stages of perforation, patients often have a certain degree of shock symptoms. The condition progresses to bacterial peritonitis and intestinal paralysis, and the patient may experience toxic shock again.

3. Nausea and vomiting

About half of the patients experience nausea and vomiting, but the symptoms are not severe. Vomiting worsens during intestinal paralysis, and there are also symptoms such as abdominal distension and constipation.

4. Other symptoms

Other symptoms of gastric perforation include fever and increased white blood cell count, but these symptoms will occur within a few hours after gastric perforation occurs.