General Causes For Abdominal Pain
Because many conditions of the abdomen share the same symptoms, the causes are in more than one case difficult to determine, but the good thing is that only few abdominal affections are so serious to require more than medication at home. So, the nature of pain is more likely to be determined by severity, location or other aspects.
- - Generalized pain can have different sources or can accompany many diseases, such as indigestion and stomach flu and affects at least half the abdomen. It stops without medication, as spontaneously as it appeared, but there are times in which home treatment is necessary. In some cases it may indicate intestinal blockage.
- - Localized pain affects only a determined abdominal portion. If present with regularity, it may constitute a symptom for a severe affection such as gallbladder disease or peptic ulcer, or may indicate inflamed abdominal organs. There are cases in which generalized pain derives into localized pain.
- - Although painful, cramping is seldom caused by a serious affection. It usually comes with diarrhoea, or, in women, with menstruation. A person needs to worry only in case this cramping lasts more than one day and localizes. It usually goes away with gases or a stool.
Serious attacks of pain possibly indicate stomach rupture, intestine perforation, testicle or ovary torsion, kidney stone, gallbladder disease or problems in blood flow. In case the pain depends on movement or coughing, it may indicate appendicitis, gallbladder disease or even a more severe problem so that the person should see a specialist.
Vomiting, pain or nausea can appear after a minor abdominal injury but usually don't last more than a few minutes. Yet, in case they don't disappear, it means that an abdominal organ was touched. Abdominal pain and constipation may appear also from medication.