What are the symptoms of intestinal obstruction

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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 are the symptoms of intestinal obstruction

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 the high pitched bowel sounds; If it is incomplete intestinal obstruction, when the gas passes through the obstruction, the pain suddenly alleviates or disappears; In volvulus and intussusception, the pain was persistent and paroxysmal 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 bowel above the obstruction; When intestinal paralysis occurs, abdominal pain changes to 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 and more frequently, and vomits more frequently; The vomit of low obstruction appeared later, the frequency was less and the vomit volume was less. The vomit of low obstruction also had 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, and the more obvious the abdominal distension is; Sometimes, although the obstruction is complete, but due to the loss of intestinal storage function, vomiting is early and frequent, and abdominal distension may not occur; If we do not pay attention to this situation, it may 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.