What is intestinal obstruction? What are the symptoms

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There are many bad habits, we will often suffer from a variety of stomach diseases, intestinal obstruction is one of them, but many people do not understand this disease. So what is intestinal obstruction? What are the symptoms? Now let's introduce its symptoms.

What is intestinal obstruction? What are the symptoms

Symptom 1: abdominal pain: mechanical intestinal obstruction due to intestinal peristalsis enhancement, often paroxysmal abdominal colic. During the attack of abdominal pain, patients often feel that there is gas running in the abdomen, and they can see or touch the intestinal type, and hear high pitched bowel sounds; if it is incomplete intestinal obstruction, the pain will be suddenly relieved or disappeared after the gas passes through the obstruction; when intestinal volvulus and intussusception occur, the pain will be persistent and paroxysmal aggravation due to excessive mesenteric traction; In the late stage of the disease, the degree and frequency of pain were reduced due to excessive expansion and weak contraction of the intestinal tract above the obstruction; when intestinal paralysis occurred, abdominal pain turned into persistent distending pain.

Symptom 2: vomiting: the frequency, amount and character of vomit vary with the location of obstruction. High obstruction (mainly refers to the proximal side of duodenum and jejunum) vomits earlier, more frequently and vomits more; low obstruction vomits later, less times and vomits less; low obstruction vomits also has fecal odor due to the role of bacterial reproduction.

Symptom 3: abdominal distension: abdominal distension caused by intestinal dilatation during obstruction. The degree of abdominal distension varies with whether the obstruction is complete or not and the location of obstruction. The more complete the obstruction is, the lower the position is, the more obvious the abdominal distension is; sometimes the obstruction is complete, but because of the loss of intestinal storage function, vomiting is early and frequent, abdominal distension can not occur; if we do not pay attention to this situation, it can lead to missed diagnosis and misdiagnosis. Closed mixed ileus often shows asymmetric abdominal distension, and sometimes the dilated bowel can be found there.

matters needing attention

The main symptoms of intestinal obstruction are nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain. If you get this disease, you should be treated in time. During the treatment, you should take medicine on time, eat more stomach nourishing food, and don't eat irritating food.