What should children check for stomach pain

Although the living environment is getting better and better now, children can eat whatever they want. However, parents are too busy with their work to take good care of their children. Because of this, many children will experience stomach pain or abdominal pain, which is very uncomfortable. When parents find out, they want to know more and help their children recover as soon as possible. So, what should be checked for stomach pain in children?

The following clinical symptoms require gastroscopy:

1. Repeated vomiting, belching, acid reflux, and abdominal distension related to diet;

2. Recurrent abdominal pain, with unclear location, which may be limited to the pit of the stomach or around the navel, and is intermittent and irregular, and may occur at night and in the early morning, but there is no history of intestinal parasite infection;

3. Unexplained vomiting of blood or black stools, with multiple positive results in fecal occult blood tests;

4. There is a family history of gastric disease, the child has been ill for more than 3 months, accompanied by symptoms such as sallow complexion, weight loss, anemia and upper abdominal pain.

Gastroscopy reveals the "black hole" of children's gastric disease

Since gastroscopy started relatively late in pediatrics, previous methods such as barium meals and X-rays could not “catch all” pediatric digestive system diseases. The efficiency of gastroscopy in gastrointestinal examination can reach 99%. With the increasing popularity of gastroscopy in pediatric examinations, the "black hole" of children's stomach disease has gradually been exposed to the sun. These diseases include chronic gastritis, duodenal bulbitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, etc., which have become common diseases in children. Parents should pay great attention to this.

Generally speaking, children are not aware of abdominal pain and cannot accurately describe the feeling, which means that many children's stomach problems cannot be discovered in time. In addition, the diversity of the disease's symptoms is also one of the factors that make parents easily misled. Qu Wenzhi introduced that the pain time of children with stomach problems is not fixed. Most of them experience pain after meals, while some experience pain before meals. After eating, the food neutralizes the stomach acid and the pain will be relieved. Compared with adult patients who may have a medical history of more than ten years, children's stomach pain often manifests as intermittent attacks, each lasting perhaps only a few minutes or more than ten minutes, and the pain disappears quickly.

After reading the above introduction, everyone must pay more attention to their children in life. If you don't know what to do when your child has stomach pain, you can use the above content to know what tests your child should take to the hospital for, so that the condition can be diagnosed in time. Let the doctor treat you in time and recover your health as soon as possible.