Stomach

Pain in the stomach in children

Pain in the stomach in children - signs of the most common diseases among newborns, children of middle and senior school age. And although these pains may differ in nature from mild to extremely painful, the vast majority of them quickly pass. And is not a symptom of something more sinister than gases or indigestion.

Polyuria and frequent urination

Polyuria - diuresis more than 3 l / day; it should be distinguished from increased urination, which is the need to urinate many times during the day or night, but in normal or less than normal volumes. Each of the symptoms may include nocturia.

Painful defecation

Dysceia is a difficult stool. In case of dyspepsia, patients are unable to defecate, despite the presence of stool and the need for defecation.

Constipation Treatment: Types of Laxatives

It is necessary to take into account any individual characteristics. If necessary, drugs that cause constipation should be discarded.

Causes of Acute and Chronic Constipation

When atony, the large intestine does not respond to the usual stimulation with food and physical activity, which contribute to defecation, or these stimuli are not enough.

Constipation diagnostics: fibrocolonoscopy, coprogram

Constipation is a difficult and rare bowel movement, a hard stool consistency and a feeling of incomplete emptying of the rectum.

Causes and pathophysiology of diarrhea

Diarrhea is a consequence, mainly, of excess water in the feces, which can be caused by infection, medication, food, surgery, inflammation, accelerated passage through the intestine or malabsorption.

Diarrhea

It is necessary to find out when diarrhea arose, its duration and severity, the circumstances of the onset of the disease (including recent travel, food consumed, water sources and medications taken, as well as any antibiotics during the previous 3 months), abdominal pain and vomiting, frequency and time of bowel movements, changes in the stool (for example, blood admixture, changes in color and consistency, signs of steatorrhea) and related changes in weight and appetite, as well as sudden urge to stool or tenesmus.

Nausea and vomiting

Nausea, an unpleasant feeling of vomiting is an afferent vegetative impulse (including an increase in the parasympathetic tone) of the medullary emetic center. Vomiting - forced removal of gastric contents due to unintentional contraction of the abdominal wall muscles when lowering the stomach bottom and relaxation of the esophageal sphincter

Flatulence (bloating)

Rumination is, as a rule, involuntary regurgitation of small amounts of food from the stomach (usually 15-30 minutes after eating), which the patient re-chews and in most cases swallows again.

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