After food poisoning, diet disorders, as well as in a variety of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, people complain of abdominal pain. To provide emergency care, eliminate discomfort and unpleasant symptoms, you need to determine the exact cause of this clinical phenomenon. It is especially important to know how and where the stomach hurts with gastritis, since this pathology has several forms with different signs, including localization and severity of spasms.
Does the stomach ache with gastritis?
The main symptom of the described disease is pain, and it is so specific that it allows you to quickly differentiate gastritis from disorders of the intestine and other digestive organs.
Pain syndrome in acute and chronic form of the disease has its own characteristics.
What are the pains with acute gastritis of the stomach?
As a rule, discomfort begins after eating or in the morning, on an empty stomach.
For simple catarrhal gastritis moderate pains in the epigastric region are characteristic - the area of the stomach, right under the sternum in the center of the trunk. The syndrome is described by such adjectives as "sucking", "pulling", "squeezing".
With other forms of acute gastritis, accompanied by erosive lesions of the mucous membranes of the body, burns, infectious inflammation, there is a strong, almost intolerable pain in the stomach and behind the breastbone. Sensations are so intense that some patients even catch their breath, especially when they palpate or push the epigastric zone.
How does the stomach ache with chronic gastritis?
Sluggish type of the disease has mild symptoms. Painful syndrome is almost not felt, except that if the diet is violated or during the autumn-spring exacerbation of gastritis.
If the chronic form of the disease is accompanied by inflammatory, infectious or hypertrophic processes with permanent damage to the mucosa lining the internal walls of the stomach, the pain intensifies. It occurs immediately after a meal, first there is a heaviness or overflow in the abdomen, and then gradually increases. Patients characterize the pain syndrome as "dumb", "pulling", "aching".
The only exception is chronic atrophic gastritis . This kind of pathology is accompanied by inflammation of not only the mucous membranes of the stomach, but also its glands, so the pain is sharp, pricking, paroxysmal.