In the medical language, pains in the stomach are calledgastralegia. It is a condition in which a person experiences various kinds of unpleasant sensations in the region of the left hypochondrium. The stomach is located in the area called the epigastrium. Acute pain in the stomach is felt in it, above the horizontal, conditionally passing through the navel and under the arch of the ribs of the thorax.

On such unpleasant moments today complainvery many. They can be characterized not only by the cause of their occurrence, but also by their intensity and character. And to eliminate this problem, you need to find out the reason for them first.

So, the intensity depends on the type of diseasestomach. Although judging the nature of the ongoing disease, only in terms of the intensity of pain in it, it is quite difficult. Mainly, because the assessment of the degree of pain sensations directly affects the individual characteristics of the organism, as well as the personal perception of the unpleasant sensations by the patient.

In general, mild pains indicatechronic gastritis, less often - a peptic ulcer or stomach cancer. Often the patient does not attach importance to such feelings, thereby aggravating the disease. Severe acute pain in the stomach can serve as a signal of a peptic ulcer attacking the duodenum or intestine, and duodenitis.

Sometimes the intensity of pain at the datadiseases is an order of magnitude higher. And only in those cases, patients immediately seek medical help. When the pain reaches its maximum degree, the patient has a painful shock. Such unpleasant sensations in the stomach occur with a perforated ulcer.

It should be noted that patients who have previouslythe stomach is operated, can not feel even strong pains at an aggravation of an ulcer. However, in rare cases they can occur in such patients, only weak ones.

Acute pain in the stomach carries a certaincharacter, due to which is described and confirmed not only any specific disease, but also the presence of certain complications. So, importunate and burning, which occurs with gastritis or ulcerative disease, may indicate the appearance of a solaris. A dull whining - is often a companion of chronic gastritis with preserved secretion or ulcerative stomach disease.

Sometimes with peptic ulcer there are sharp,spasmodic pain. With gastritis with a decreased secretory function, there is a feeling of bursting and heaviness. Colic in the stomach can serve as a signal for pancreatitis, colitis, or cholecystitis.

The causes of all these pains differ in determining character in diagnosing a particular disease. As a rule, their occurrence is influenced by such factors:

• The period of food intake;
• Quality of consumed food;
• Neuropsychic overload;
• Exercise stress.

Sometimes on the occurrence of pain associated withduodenitis and ulcer of the duodenum, are affected more by the last two factors. But with stomach cancer, often the causes of the appearance of unpleasant sensations remain completely vague.

With chronic gastritis, there are colicimmediately after meals, especially rough and sour. Often this causes fear in the patient before eating, which leads to a rejection of it or, worse, starvation.

In addition, such pains arise not onlyimmediately after meals, but after an hour, one and a half (peptic ulcer), two hours (a peptic ulcer in the duodenum), as well as "hungry" nocturnal colic appear with duodenitis and peptic ulcer of the same duodenum.

With pain in the stomach, no matter whatit's nature, intensity or frequency, it is necessary to immediately seek advice from an experienced specialist and begin appropriate treatment. In this case, you may need the help of a gastroenterologist, a surgeon or an oncologist.

Do not forget that besidesmedical treatment, certain rules are required. Thus, acute pain in the stomach should be treated by normalizing the diet (a fractional sparing diet, eating at least 4-5 times a day, eliminating the acute, roast and salted), quitting smoking and any alcoholic beverages, reducing physical and mental stress .