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CAUSES OF ABDOMINAL PAIN






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Causes of abdominal pain can be difficult to identify. In fact half of the time doctors are unable to tell what is causing pain in the abdomen. An out going president of the American Medical Association had this to say regarding causes of abdominal pain:

"When I began practice … I was relatively safe in assuming [that abdominal pain] was appendicitis or green apples. Today it is also highly probable that the patient is suffering from the fact that his wife of 40 years wants to leave him for the Peace Corps or Richard Burton." - Dr Gunnar Gundersen, former President, American Medical Association.

So diversed could the causes of abdominal pain be that it runs the gamut from physical problems like appendicitis to emotional ones as revealed above.

You may even know someone who may have felt disappointment with the diagnosis of the cause of their tummy pain. We will therefore attempt to go through all the common causes of pain in the abdomen and work our way through the characteristics of abdominal pain in each of these conditions.

But what is abdominal pain? What could cause abdominal pain in different part of the tummy and how can these be identified?

Abdominal (belly, tummy) pain refers to the feeling of any unpleasant or annoying sensation anywhere between the edge of your rib cage to the margins of your waist bone on the front or side.

The abdomen is a space or cavity that is lined by a thin membrane called peritoneum, and it contains part of the oesophagus or gullet, the stomach, intestines, liver, gall bladder, pancreas, kidneys, ureters (which are the tubes that drain urine from the kidneys to the) bladder, the adrenal glands; in females, the uterus, ovaries, and tubes.

Any injury or bugs affecting this areas or structures just listed would cause pain in the belly.

For the purpose of Easy of diagnosis, causes of abdominal pain can also be traced by dividing these into
upper abdominal pain , central abdominal pain , lower abdominal pain , right side abdominal pain , and left side abdominal pain .



Please see the various sections for a guide to the possible causes of abdominal pain.

The following are specific causes of abdominal pain.

Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
Abdominal-Migraine
Appendicitis
Biliary Colic
Bowel Cancer
Bowel Obstruction
Braxton Hicks
Carcinoid Tumour
Chance Fracture
Celiac Disease
Cholecystitis

Constipation
Crohn's Disease
Cystitis
Diverticulitis
Diabetic Keto Acidosis / Angina

Ectopic Pregnancy
Endometriosis
Endometritis
Fibroids
Food Piosoning
Gallstone Diseases
Gastroenteritis
Gonorrhoea
Hernia
Heart Attack
Hirschsprung's Disease
Indigestion
Intussusception
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Kidney Stone

labour Pain
Lactose Intolerance
Liver Cancer

Menstrual Pain
Merkels Diverticulitis
Mesenteric Infarction
Mid-Cycle Pain
Mini Heart Attack / Angina Miscarriage
Muscle Strain or Bruise

Myocardial Infarction
Non-specific Abdominal Pain
Ovarian Cancer
Ovarian Cyst
Pancreatic Cancer
Pancreatitis
Peptic Ulcer
Pneumonia
Porphyria
Primary Sclerosing Cholangitis
Pulmonary Embolism
Pyloric Stenosis
PID
Recurrent Abdominal Pain Syndrome
Rectus Sheath Haematoma
Ruptured Spleen

Miscarriage
Stomach Cancer
Trapped Wind
Trichobezoa
Ulcerative Colitis
Urinary Retention
Urinary Tract Infection
Volvulus

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Other causes like intestinal worms, emotional problems and acidents would be mentioned in passing. It is important to bear these in mind as causes of abdominal pain too.

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