Symptoms of acute abdomen in children?

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Acute abdomen in children, that is, abdominal distension in children, can be caused by gas accumulation, effusion, huge abdominal mass or hepatosplenomegaly in the intestinal cavity and abdominal cavity. The most common type of abdominal distension in children is gas distension. Symptoms of acute abdomen in children? Let's talk about it.

Symptoms of acute abdomen in children?

Abdominal distension is a clinical symptom. Under normal circumstances, children over 2 years old are the same as adults. Except for stomach and colon, there is no gas in the small intestine. Normal small intestine of newborns should be inflated. If there is no gas accumulation, it is mostly pathological phenomenon. Especially after satiation, the whole abdomen expands, often higher than the xiphoid process. When hungry, the abdomen becomes empty and shriveled. If the abdomen continues to expand and has tension, it can be considered as abdominal distension.

Abdominal examination: when tapping the abdomen, the tympanic sound is Qi, the solid sound is solid tumor, the solid sound has conductive tremor at the same time, which is effusion. When auscultating the abdomen for mechanical intestinal obstruction, the bowel sounds are excessive, and the bowel sounds are weakened or disappeared for paralytic intestinal obstruction.

There are also two cases of flatulence, generally gastrointestinal flatulence, but there are a few cases of pneumoperitoneum. In these two cases, in addition to the abdominal vertical position X-ray examination of subphrenic gas accumulation, the clinical upper abdomen light shallow photography can feel the pneumoperitoneum is empty and soft, and the intestinal flatulence can touch the intestinal shape. Older children can rely on the left lateral position, percussion liver voiced boundary to identify, pneumoperitoneum liver voiced boundary disappeared.

matters needing attention

1. Eat less food that is easy to produce gas in the stomach, such as potatoes, pasta, sugar, etc., which are easy to produce gas in the stomach, and eventually lead to abdominal distension. 2. Hard foods such as fried beans and hard pancakes are not easy to digest and stay in the gastrointestinal tract for a long time, which may produce more gas and cause abdominal distension. 3. Develop good eating habits and change the habit of swallowing. It is easy to swallow a lot of air because of eating too fast or eating while walking; Drinking drinks with a common straw will also let a lot of air sneak into the stomach, causing abdominal distension. 4. To prevent bad emotions, such as anxiety, worry, sadness, depression and so on, may weaken the digestive function, or stimulate the stomach to produce too much gastric acid.