What diseases are caused by pain in the left side of the abdomen?

There are inevitably some people around us who suffer from pains here and there, which are symptoms of some diseases. Some people often feel pain in the left side of their abdomen from time to time, and sometimes they feel panic. In fact, at this time, you can go to the hospital for a full-body examination to confirm what disease is bothering you? So what diseases are the manifestations of left abdominal pain?

Abdominal distension, colic, drilling pain, dull pain and burning pain all fall into the category of abdominal pain and are a common clinical symptom. According to the rapidity of onset, abdominal pain can be divided into acute abdominal pain and chronic abdominal pain. Acute abdominal pain comes on suddenly, changes rapidly, and the condition is serious. The causes are complex and the localization is often not very accurate; chronic abdominal pain has a slow onset, a long course, or occurs secondary to acute abdominal pain, and the localization is accurate.

1) Acute abdominal pain is caused by many reasons and can be roughly divided into the following two categories according to the location of the lesion:

1. Intra-abdominal lesions.

① Organ inflammation - common in acute gastritis, acute enteritis, acute hepatitis, acute cholecystitis, acute pancreatitis, acute appendicitis, acute peritonitis and acute pyelonephritis, etc.

② Organ perforation - common in gastric and duodenal ulcer perforation, gastric cancer perforation and intestinal perforation.

③ Organ obstruction or torsion - common in gastric mucosal prolapse, acute intestinal obstruction, biliary ascariasis, gallstones, kidney and ureteral stones, and ovarian cyst pedicle torsion.

④ Organ rupture and bleeding - common in liver and spleen rupture, ectopic pregnancy, etc.

⑤ Organ vascular diseases - common in mesenteric artery sclerosis and infarction, portal vein thrombosis, splenic infarction, renal infarction, abdominal aortic aneurysm and dissecting aortic aneurysm, etc.

⑥Others-such as acute gastric dilatation, dysmenorrhea, etc.

2. Extra-abdominal diseases.

①Chest diseases - such as pneumonia, pleurisy and acute myocardial infarction.

② Poisoning and metabolic disorders - such as lead poisoning, diabetic ketoacidosis and uremia.

③Allergic reactions and other diseases - such as abdominal allergic diseases, acute hemolysis, abdominal epilepsy and neurosis.

2) Chronic abdominal pain has the characteristic of accurate location, and can be classified into the following categories according to the location of the pain:

1. Chronic right upper abdominal pain - common in chronic hepatitis, liver abscess, liver cancer, chronic cholecystitis, cholelithiasis and ulcer disease, etc.

2. Chronic upper and middle abdominal pain - common in esophageal hiatal hernia, esophagitis, cardiac cancer, gastric and duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis, gastroptosis, gastric neurosis, chronic pancreatitis and pancreatic cancer.

3. Chronic left upper abdominal pain-common in chronic gastritis, chronic pancreatitis, etc.

4. Chronic left and right lumbar and abdominal pain - common in renal ptosis, chronic pyelonephritis and urinary stones.

5. Chronic right lower abdominal pain - common in chronic appendicitis, intestinal tuberculosis and right salpingo-oophoritis, etc.