Abdominal syndrome is a complex of symptoms, which is primarily manifested by pain in the abdomen. The main reasons for the development of the syndrome are spasms of certain parts of the gastrointestinal tract or overgrowth of the biliary tract. Also, abdominal syndrome causes bloating.
Causes of abdominal syndrome
The appearance of unpleasant symptoms provokes:
- passive lifestyle;
- stress;
- malnutrition;
- taking antibiotics;
- bowel disease and others.
It is quite often that the appearance of pain is provoked by spasms resulting from an allergic reaction, irritation of the diaphragmatic nerves, irradiation of pain from the pleura or pericardium.
If the cause of abdominal ischemic pain syndrome is vasculitis and periarteritis, then there is such an unpleasant symptom as blood in the stool, the cause of this is a hemorrhage into the wall of the bowel.
In addition, the syndrome itself can become a sign of the disease. So, ARVI with abdominal syndrome suggests that the disease flows into a more complex stage and can lead to febrile seizures, hemorrhagic phenomena or chronic diseases.
Symptoms of abdominal syndrome
Abdominal pain syndrome is characterized by unstable pain, the localization of which is difficult to determine.
Also the disease is accompanied by:
- vomiting;
- muscle strain of the anterior abdominal wall;
- a change in the cellular composition of the blood, that is, leukocytosis .
Specialists distinguish two types of pain:
- Acute abdominal syndrome. Has a short duration, often develops quickly.
- Chronic syndrome of abdominal pain. Differs gradual increase in pain, which can recur throughout the months.
Also the syndrome is divided into:
- visceral;
- parental;
- reflected;
- psychogenic.
Visceral pain occurs as a result of increasing the pressure of the hollow organ or stretching its wall, and also the factors of the development of pain serve:
- tension of the mesentery;
- vascular disorders;
- stretching of the capsule of the parenchymal organs.
Somatic pain is the result of the presence of pathological processes in the parietal peritoneum and tissues.
Abdominal syndrome of the reflected mechanism
The cause of psychogenic pain often becomes depression , which in the first stages may not be noticed even by the patient himself. Stress and prolonged depression trigger a biochemical process that provokes the development of psychogenic pain.
Often one form of pain flows into another. So, with increasing pressure in the intestine, there is visceral pain, which later flows into the reflected in the back area.
Thus, the abdominal syndrome has a fairly extensive list of manifestations that signal the presence of pathologies in the body.