What should I do if my daughter often has stomachache?

Stomach pain is not unfamiliar to people, because stomach pain is often caused by diarrhea. However, if this is the case, it is easy to deal with. The easiest way is to go to the toilet to defecate. As long as the stool is discharged smoothly, the stomach will basically not hurt. However, this situation only occurs occasionally. If you have long-term abdominal pain, you should go to the hospital. So, what should I do if my daughter often has stomachache?

Stomach ache is one of the most common symptoms in babies. Generally speaking, common causes of abdominal pain include intestinal cramps, ascariasis, dysentery, intussusception, appendicitis, etc. Because the causes of stomach pain in children are complex, a comprehensive assessment from multiple aspects is generally required to confirm the diagnosis. If parents understand the general causes and classifications of their baby's stomachache, they will not panic when facing their baby's stomachache.

There are many kinds of abdominal pain. Usually, the general cause of abdominal pain can be understood according to the baby's age characteristics, degree and location of abdominal pain.

Judging from their age, stomach pain in babies under one year old is mostly caused by intussusception. Babies around three years old are more likely to have intestinal cramps. Stomach pain in preschool children is mostly caused by intestinal roundworms or autonomic nervous system dysfunction.

Determined by pain level

Severe abdominal pain: lying still and not daring to move, mostly due to acute inflammation, such as acute appendicitis, acute cholecystitis, etc.; severe abdominal pain like colic, mostly due to ascariasis, urinary stones, etc.; tearing abdominal pain, common in visceral perforation, such as stomach and gallbladder perforation.

Determined by the location of the pain

Pain in the upper and middle abdomen is often caused by stomach problems; pain in the right upper abdomen is often caused by liver and gallbladder diseases; pain in the lower and middle abdomen is often caused by intestinal diseases; overall abdominal pain is often caused by organ perforation or necrosis or bleeding of diseased tissue; pain around the umbilicus is often caused by small intestine diseases; pain in the right lower abdomen is often caused by appendicitis.

How to deal with it: Should you send your baby to the hospital or not? When it comes to the question of whether to send your baby to the hospital for stomachache, parents should take a cautious attitude. Because the hidden problems behind baby's stomach pain can be small or big, and if you don't pay attention, the disease will be delayed. Especially when the baby rolls on the ground in pain, or has any symptoms such as high fever, diarrhea or vomiting, he should be rushed to the hospital for diagnosis and treatment. Of course, some simple stomach pains may just be a false alarm. Even though some pains are quite severe and the baby keeps crying, the pain will disappear after being sent to the hospital. This is because the baby has intestinal spasm. Once the spasm is relieved, the pain is relieved immediately, so the baby starts jumping around again.