Stomach

Blood in feces: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Blood in the feces is a very alarming and serious symptom of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (anal zone, anal canal, rectal area).

Psychogenic constipation: causes, symptoms, diagnosis

Constipation (constipation) is a reduction in the act of defecation (once every two days and less often), associated with a slow passage of contents through the intestinal tract and the presence of stasis of stool (coprostasis).

Belching

An eructation is the sudden exhalation of gases from the stomach or esophagus, accompanied by a characteristic sound. Belching is included in the range of phenomena united by the common term "pneumatosis of the stomach".

Nervous vomiting and nausea

Vomiting is the eruption of gastric and esophageal contents through the mouth (sometimes nasal passages) outward. For the first time "nerve vomiting" was described by V. Stiler in 1884. It should be emphasized that for today there is no sufficiently clear and unambiguous description of the clinical picture of this phenomenon within the framework of psychogenic disorders.

Regurgitation of a newborn

Regurgitation with a small amount of air and gastric contents, observed very often in children of the first year of life. This phenomenon, related to the structure of the esophagus and stomach in infants, can accompany every feeding. Over time, regurgitation, as a rule, stops.

Rumination (chewing gum)

Rumination (chewing gum) is a rare but too serious form of chronic regurgitation: it can cause a delay in the growth and pace of the child's psycho-speech and motor development, especially in the second half of the first year of life. With gum, regurgitation, chewing and re-ingestion of food occurs without nausea, but on the contrary, as a definitely pleasant process for the child, eagerly repeated.

Nausea in children

Nausea is an unpleasant sensation in the epigastric region, often accompanied by weakness, dizziness, faintness, pallor of the skin, drooling.

Vomiting in the child

Vomiting is the eruption of gastric or intestinal contents through the mouth and nasal passages to the outside. Vomiting is a frequent symptom in children, and the smaller the child, the easier it is. The mechanism of vomiting consists in a sharp relaxation of the diaphragm and a simultaneous, sharp contraction of the musculature of the abdominal wall, when the gastric contents are forcefully pushed into the esophagus.

Abdominal pain in a child: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment

Pain in the abdomen of a child is a cardinal symptom of many sorrows and digestive organs. In young children, the equivalent of pain is anxiety, screaming, rejection of the mother's breast. In children of preschool and primary school age, pain can be manifested by a feeling of rapid saturation and overfilling of the stomach.

Constipation in children

Constipation - delayed, difficult or systematically insufficient emptying of the intestine. For most children, a chronic stool delay of more than 36 hours is considered constipation.

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