Many women complain of intermittent or permanent discomfort in the liver region. This symptom often indicates the development or exacerbation of diseases of this organ, as well as the gallbladder. It is important to immediately pay attention and begin to treat pain in the right hypochondrium - the causes of pathology in the future can lead to cholecystitis, chronic hepatitis and cirrhosis.
Why does pain occur in the right hypochondrium?
To correctly diagnose a disease that provokes the phenomenon under consideration, it is important to determine the nature of the pain syndrome, its intensity and frequency.
The most common reasons are:
- diseases of the liver and gallbladder;
- inflammation of the appendix;
- kidney pathologies;
- pancreatitis;
- ulcer of the duodenum.
The listed ailments account for 90% of all cases of treatment of patients with the described symptoms. Other factors:
- secondary biliary cirrhosis;
- adenoma of the liver;
- stenosis of the fatker's nipple;
- cancer of the gallbladder;
- tissue rejection during liver transplantation;
- cholangiocarcinoma;
- primary sclerosing cholangitis;
- hepatic insufficiency ;
- epithelium haemangiendothelioma of the liver;
- empyema of the gallbladder;
- fatty degeneration of the liver of a large-droplet form;
- echinococcosis;
- abscess of the liver;
- biliary sludge;
- hepatomegaly;
- chronic ischemic disease of the digestive system;
- Fitz-Hugh-Curtis syndrome;
- thrombosis of the hepatic veins;
- opisthorchiasis;
- amebiasis.
Let's consider the main causes of pain syndrome in more detail.
Constant severe pain in the right hypochondrium
This character of the symptom usually occurs with dyskinesia of bile ducts, inflammatory processes in the kidneys, hepatitis (viral, alcoholic, medicamentous) and chronic inflammation of the gallbladder.
In addition, the following symptoms are observed:
- severe nausea, often with vomiting, which brings short-term relief;
- weakness in muscles, fatigue;
- bitter taste in the mouth;
- yellowing of the skin;
- change (darkening) of the color of urine;
- icterus of the mucous membranes of the mouth, sclera;
- discoloration of stool;
- lack of appetite, right up to anorexia;
- drowsiness;
- pain or burning sensation when urinating, if there is inflammation of the kidneys, pyelonephritis;
- stool disorders.
Acute pain in the right hypochondrium
This type of pain syndrome can be pulsating, burning, pressing, stitching. He accompanies such diseases:
- cholecystitis;
- cirrhosis of the liver of the last stage;
- infection of the gallbladder;
- pancreatitis (acute);
- destructive processes in the right kidney.
These pathologies have a number of characteristic symptoms:
- diarrhea;
- nausea;
- irradiation of lower back pain, back, coccyx region, abdomen bottom;
- increased body temperature;
- bloating, flatulence ;
- vomiting with impurities of bile;
- severe yellowing of the skin, sclera and mucous membranes.
Raspiruyuschaya pain in the right hypochondrium
The described feature appears exclusively in the chronic form of pancreatitis with enzymatic deficiency. In this case, the pain syndrome can have a shrouding character, accompanied by flatulence, heartburn and belching, weight in the stomach after eating. Chronic pancreatitis also manifests itself as a complicated
Night pains in the right hypochondrium
This symptom indicates an ulcer of the duodenum. If the pain is noted only at night, early in the morning (due to fasting) and immediately after the meal, but not expressed severely, the disease is in remission. Additionally, patients complain of vomiting, bloating, nausea. When the pain becomes unbearable, and among the symptoms - weakness and dizziness, most likely, there was a perforation of the ulcer.