Acute belly: Everyone should know

«Think, the belly fell ill! I will take a tablet and everything will pass». Carefully! The pain may be a sign of acute abdomen - a serious clinical situation requiring immediate intervention.

Content

Name of syndrome «spicy
stomach» It did not take place from the form of this body area. Word «spicy» means
the seriousness of the problem, the sharpness of the moment, as well as the fact that the current clinical
Situation and patient's condition require immediate medical care. Topic
acute belly arose not by chance. Everyone should know what it is, because delay
and the absence of treatment in this case, as a rule, leads to death.

Acute belly — This
A whole complex of symptoms, manifestations of the pathological condition of the body caused by
serious damage to the abdominal organs or retroperitoneal space and
annoyance of peritoneum.

Signs of acute abdomen

• Sharp pain, which can spread all over the stomach or be localized in
  One of its area. Sometimes the pain is so strong that causes shock, then the sick
  loses consciousness or flows into a state of stupor, sharply pale, covered
  Cold later.

  Attention!
  Young children, old people, weakened patients abdominal pain may not be
  so strong, but this does not speak of a satisfactory condition.

• Front Abdominal Muscle Tension — An important sign of a sharp belly. Usually, what
  The organ is stronger, the greater the size of the pathological tension of the muscles
  Belly. For example, with a localized process in a basin, abdominal muscle tension
  expressed only in a suplocked area, and with a spilled peritonitis all the stomach
  becomes «solid and flat as the board». People with weak muscles
  The voltage of the anterior abdominal wall is expressed weaker than the trained persons.
• Vomit — Frequent sputter of acute abdomen arising in the first hours of the disease.
  Sometimes due to irritation of the diaphragmal nerve, the contents of the abdominal cavity occurs
  Taming Icota. This origin has a symptom of increasing pain when
  try to take a horizontal position.
• Stool and gases accompany intestinal obstruction, diarrhea happens
  With acute appendicitis.
• Admixt Blood in Calais Characteristic for sharp
  circulatory disorders in the intestine.

The most frequent causes of acute abdomen

• Acute inflammation of digestive organs, such as appendicitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis.
• Perforation of a hollow organ, that is, education
  Holes by which the cavity of the abdominal organ is informed.
  Perforation may occur as a result of a disease or injury, which is natural
  leads to the development of peritonitis and the emergence of signs of acute abdomen.
• Internal bleeding when blood is fused
  in the abdominal cavity or in the retroperitoneal space, for example, with an ectopic
  pregnancy and bursting of the uterine pipe, during injury or spray spleen.
• Intestinal obstruction, acute violation
  Menitary blood circulation, i.e. blood circulation in vessels
  intestines.
• Inflammation and impaired blood circulation
  organs, for example, acute adnexitis, twisted the legs of cysts, necrosis of myomatous
  node.

First aid for
acute abdomen

If there are signs of acute abdomen, the most important thing — Immediately call the brigade «Ambulance» or yourself urgently deliver
patient in the nearest hospital. Acute belly — just the case when better
reinforce it than to tighten with medical help.

Despite the fact that the sharp belly is most often
indication for urgent surgical intervention, operations required
Preparations and accurate diagnosis of catastrophe causes, including inspection,
Urgent blood tests, urine, x-ray diagnostics, ultrasound, endoscopy, laparoscopy
and other methods of identifying the disease. And only extremely heavy, critical
The patient's condition requires interference without delay. In some cases
A sharp belly is even treated by conservative methods.

How to behave before
Doctor's arrival?

While assistance comes, with acute stomach it is recommended:

• Take a comfortable position facilitating pain.
• Do not take food and water, it can aggravate
  position and promote the development of peritonitis.
• Do not take analgesics, sleeping pills,
  Soothing drugs — they «Lubricate» Clinical picture of the disease.
• Do not put the enema and do not take laxatives
  funds.

Remember, the forecast is diagnosed «Acute belly» depends not
only on the nature and severity of the underlying disease, but also from the period last
Since the appearance of the first signs of the catastrophe. The faster it will be possible
eliminate the cause of the disease, the faster the recovery will come.