Diagnosis
In addition to diarrhea and stomach pain, other accompanying symptoms often occur because the underlying disease is usually something that affects the entire digestive tract. This typically results in additional nausea and vomiting. Like diarrhea, vomiting serves to cleanse the digestive tract of potential pathogens.
General symptoms such as fever, headaches and aching limbs can also accompany the vomiting. These usually reflect a reaction of the entire immune system. If diarrhea and stomach pain occur together, it is not uncommon for pain to occur in the entire abdominal cavity as well.
This is triggered, for example, by cramps in the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, these pains can radiate into other areas of the body, especially the back is often affected. Other complaints such as dizziness often occur as a result of diarrhea and stomach pain.
Due to the diarrhoea, affected persons lose a lot of fluid in a short time. In addition, they consume less fluid due to the stomach pain. This lack of fluid weakens the body’s circulation, which can lead to sudden attacks of dizziness, especially when getting up from a sitting or lying position.
Nausea is generally a very common accompanying symptom of stomach pain. It is usually accompanied by vomiting. Nausea in diarrhoea and stomach pain is a sign that something has entered the digestive tract that does not belong there.
These are often bacterial or viral pathogens that the body wants to get rid of as quickly as possible. For this purpose, the stomach produces a lot of gastric acid, because the high acidity can already kill many pathogens. This increased acid production often causes nausea and stomach pain and can also lead to diarrhoea.
Besides coughing, sneezing and choking, vomiting is another protective mechanism that is supposed to protect the body from pathogens that enter the body from the mouth, nose and throat. If, for example, there are pathogens in food that is eaten with food, the body tries to destroy these germs already in the stomach. Since it often does not succeed in killing all viruses or bacteria in the stomach, vomiting is an additional problem.
The entire contents of the stomach are simply transported out through the esophagus, and along with the stomach contents, all pathogens contained therein are transported out again. If some germs still manage to move further in the digestive tract, they are next to enter the intestine. There a new defense mechanism takes effect, which leads to a rapid influx of water into the food pulp in the intestine.
As a result, the pathogens are transported as quickly as possible to the exit of the intestine. The high water content leads to diarrhea. Dizziness is a symptom that is usually caused by an unbalanced fluid balance in diarrhoea and stomach pain.
Through diarrhoea the body loses a lot of fluid within a short period of time, usually many electrolytes (blood salts) are also lost. In addition, the fluid and electrolyte stores are not sufficiently replenished, as the stomach pain prevents the affected person from eating a lot. This vicious circle leads to a severe fluid deficiency.
Especially when getting up from a lying or sitting position, the circulation cannot pump enough blood fast enough against gravity into the brain due to the small amount of fluid, which can suddenly lead to severe dizziness. Pain in the limbs is a symptom which in most cases is accompanied by a general reaction of the entire immune system. Typically, this is accompanied by fever and headache as well as a general feeling of illness.
Pain in the limbs in combination with diarrhea and stomach pain are typical signs of gastroenteritis. The entire digestive tract is often infected by viral and, more rarely, bacterial pathogens. In order to get rid of the germs quickly, various defense mechanisms are employed.
In the stomach, this leads to stomach pain, possibly also nausea and vomiting. The intestine defends itself against the pathogens with diarrhoea. The body boosts its immune system, this leads to fever, which is often accompanied by aching limbs.
Back pain in combination with diarrhea and stomach pain is often caused by the fact that the pain radiates from the stomach or even from the entire abdominal cavity into the back. In addition, stomach cramps can also lead to a reactive tension of the back muscles.This causes long-term tension in the back and thus back pain. Frequently, however, the back pain caused by diarrhea and stomach pain is also due to the fact that the ill persons take care of themselves physically. Often they lie more often in bed or on the sofa, occasionally they sit much more than they are used to in everyday life. Above all, however, diarrhea and stomach pain lead to less movement in everyday life, which can also cause back pain after a few days.