What kind of disease is a stomachache? If you look at this abdominal map, you can see it by comparison.

Many fatal diseases take abdominal pain as the first symptom, accurate description of the location of abdominal pain is an important basis to help judge the disease, an abdominal map teaches you to identify abdominal pain ① right upper abdominal pain: often caused by gallbladder and liver diseases, ② upper abdominal pain: sometimes angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction also appear upper abdominal pain. ③ left upper abdominal pain: may be caused by gastric ulcer, gastritis or acute pancreatitis, ④ right lower abdominal pain: the initial pain is often located around the navel, ⑤ lower abdominal pain: women should pay attention to pelvic inflammation, cystitis, men can be caused by prostatitis, urethral stones. ⑥ left lower abdominal pain: women should pay attention to adnexitis, pelvic inflammation, ovarian cyst torsion, corpus luteum rupture, ectopic pregnancy and so on. Abdominal pain there are three kinds of abdominal pain is a subjective feeling, a whole piece of pain basically can not touch the exact location of abdominal pain, always accompanied by abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting symptoms.

The author of this article:Kong Xiaoyu, Deputy Chief physician of Hepatobiliary Pancreatic surgery, Wuhan Central Hospital

Many fatal diseases take abdominal pain as the first symptom, pain, different parts are very different!

Accurately describe the location of abdominal pain is an important basis to help judge the disease, the stomach can be divided into 6 areas, let's take a look!

An abdominal map teaches you how to identify abdominal pain

① right upper abdominal pain:

It is often caused by gallbladder and liver diseases, such as cholecystolithiasis, cholecystitis, liver tumors and so on.

② epigastric pain:

It is often associated with gastric and duodenal ulcers, all kinds of gastritis or indigestion. Sometimes upper abdominal pain occurs in angina pectoris and acute myocardial infarction.

③ left upper abdominal pain:

It can be caused by stomach ulcers, gastritis or acute pancreatitis, usually after eating and drinking, and the pain radiates to the lower back and shoulders.

④ right lower abdominal pain:

The most common is appendicitis, where the initial pain is often located around the navel and gradually fixed in the right lower abdomen.

⑤ lower abdominal pain:

Women should pay attention to pelvic inflammation, cystitis, men can be caused by prostatitis, urethral stones.

⑥ left lower abdominal pain:

Women should pay attention to adnexitis, pelvic inflammation, ovarian cyst torsion, corpus luteum rupture, ectopic pregnancy and so on.

There are three kinds of stomachache.

Abdominal pain is a subjective feeling, doctors can not personally experience, according to the patient's comprehensive medical history, physical examination and related auxiliary examination can make a judgment. The method of stomachache can be divided into three kinds:

1. Visceral pain: a whole piece hurts

Basically can not touch the exact location of abdominal pain, feel a large area of pain, always accompanied by abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting symptoms.

two。 Physical pain: completely untouchable

Can accurately touch the location of abdominal pain, pain by the abdominal wall by pathological changes caused by stimulation, pressing abdominal muscle tension, pain intense and lasting.

3. Pain involved: beating cattle across the mountain

It is obvious that there is something wrong here, but it hurts in other parts as well. In the case of appendicitis, the appendix is located at the lower right of the abdomen, but early pain often occurs in the upper abdomen or around the umbilical cord.

This kind of people have abdominal pain and seek medical attention immediately.

1. Patients with gallstone

If abdominal pain often occurs, you must see a doctor in time and surgical treatment when necessary. When gallstones are discharged into the common bile duct to block the bile duct, it will cause cholangitis and pancreatitis.

two。 Hepatitis patients

People who have chronic hepatitis or drink alcohol and never have a physical examination should beware of rupture and bleeding after the growth of a large liver tumor in the event of abdominal pain.

All in all, there are many causes of abdominal pain, the condition is complex and changeable, do not be careless when there is abdominal pain. Elderly patients are slow to respond to the deterioration of physical function, and they should be more vigilant that abdominal pain is often a sign of serious disease.

This article was first published in 2021-11-23 Health Times "abdominal pain look at the abdominal map"

Editor of this article: Mao Yuanyuan, Wang Zhen, director of manuscript review: Yang Xiaoming