Other accompanying symptoms of pain in intestinal loops
The accompanying symptoms depend on the triggering cause. Often a cause can already be suspected from a certain constellation of symptoms.
- Pain in one or more intestinal loops that occurs in combination with fever can be an indication of the presence of an inflammatory reaction, as in diverticulitis.
- Chronic inflammatory bowel disease often leads to watery or watery-bloody diarrhea in addition to abdominal pain.
- In the case of intestinal obstruction, stool often remains in the bowel and vomiting can also occur.
- If an intestinal ischemia is present, vomiting and diarrhea often occur in addition to severe abdominal pain.
- In the case of an incarcerated hernia an intestinal obstruction with the corresponding symptoms may occur due to the incarceration.
- If a duodenal ulcer is present, upper abdominal pain, nausea, feeling of fullness and loss of appetite may occur.
The pain often improves immediately after eating.
- A gastrointestinal infection is accompanied by abdominal pain and acute diarrhea, often accompanied by vomiting. Often other people in the immediate vicinity are also affected.
- Irritable bowel syndrome can be accompanied by a variety of symptoms. These include diarrhea or constipation, flatulence, belching, a feeling of fullness and loss of appetite.
Therapy of painful intestinal loops
The prognosis of pain in the area of an intestinal loop depends largely on the triggering cause. While a viral disease of the gastrointestinal tract is usually harmless and recedes of its own accord after a few days, diseases such as intestinal obstruction, intestinal ischemia or intestinal looping are life-threatening in many cases if left untreated. A quick therapy is necessary. Other diseases such as Crohn’s disease or ulcerative colitis often have a chronic recurrent course, i.e. in recurrent attacks.
