Symptoms of gastric perforation

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Gastric perforation, as the name suggests, is a hole in the wall of the stomach, serious gastric juice will enter the abdominal cavity, causing infection or damage, and even lead to acute abdomen. The most common cause of gastric perforation is peptic ulcer. As the ulcer deepens, it penetrates through the muscular layer, serosa layer, and finally through the gastric or duodenal wall. There are several different consequences after perforation. Most of them are young adults, and most of them are anterior duodenal wall. Gastric perforation is more common in middle-aged and elderly people over 50 years old, with a small number of gastric perforation. Perforation occurred seasonally, and most of them occurred in winter. Let's talk about the symptoms of gastric perforation.

Symptoms of gastric perforation

First of all, patients with gastric perforation usually have a history of gastric ulcer disease. Due to the severity of the ulcer, there is a break in the gastric wall of the ulcer.

Epigastric pain is the most common phenomenon, and it is also the most easy to understand phenomenon. Because part of the gastric contents are extruded from the perforation position, the epigastric peritoneum is corroded by gastric acid, resulting in pain.

If accompanied by peritonitis, there will be peritoneal irritation, in addition to abdominal pain, there will be the following two points: tenderness, that is, to press the pain position by hand, and then stop, there will be the pain of being pressed; Rebound pain, when suddenly raised to press the fingers in the abdomen, there will be pain.

matters needing attention

To judge gastric perforation, we should give necessary nursing from other aspects besides symptoms, including blood and urine tests. Gastric perforation can also cause fever, affect gastrointestinal function and health. In addition, we should pay attention to the treatment of intestinal system.