What causes pain around the navel in children?

Many children have experienced pain around their belly buttons, but many parents do not pay enough attention to this situation, which leads to the occurrence of more diseases. When it comes to pain around the belly button in children, we can only prescribe the right medicine if we know the cause. So, what is the reason for pain around the belly button in children? This is the key point that every parent should pay attention to and it is also the key to treating the disease.

1. Ascariasis

Characteristics of abdominal pain: Sudden abdominal pain occurs when the environment changes or the child has a fever, diarrhea, hunger, or eats spicy food. The child cries, rolls on the ground, bends over, sweats, and has a pale face. The abdominal pain is most severe around the navel. It is often accompanied by vomiting, and even roundworms may be vomited out. Sometimes abdominal pain can be relieved or even disappear on its own, and the child will appear tired. After fully recovering, he can play as usual. The pain lasts for several minutes each time and may occur every other day or several times a day.

Cause of abdominal pain: After the larvae of Ascaris develop into adults in the small intestine, they have toxic effects and mechanical stimulation to the small intestine, causing symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, and indigestion. When the number of adult worms reaches dozens or hundreds, the worms can twist into a ball and cause intestinal obstruction. Ascaris has the habit of drilling holes, and often drills into the appendix and bile duct, causing appendicitis and biliary ascariasis, resulting in abdominal pain.

How to deal with it? In recent years, there are many new symptomatic drugs with high efficacy and few side effects, such as levamisole, mebendazole, tetramisole, etc. Children with ascariasis can take these drugs under the guidance of a doctor.

Special reminder: Ascariasis is quite widespread in my country, with higher incidence in rural areas than in cities and more in children than in adults. The infection rate can reach over 85%. Therefore, prevention should be the priority: wash and cook vegetables, wash and peel fruits, do not drink raw water, and wash hands before and after meals. It is also important to cut your child's nails frequently, as the dirt under the nails often contains many roundworm eggs.

2. Acute appendicitis

The characteristics of abdominal pain are that the child feels stomach pain or pain around the navel at the beginning, and it turns into pain in the lower right abdomen after a few hours. Pressing the right lower abdomen of a child with your hand will intensify the child's crying. The child is often accompanied by symptoms such as nausea and vomiting, and then has a fever, and the body temperature can rise to around 39°C.

The abdominal pain is usually not severe, but the child often lies in bed with his right leg curled up or walks with a bent back. If the child cannot express the pain in words, his crying will be different from usual, and he will curl up his body and break out in cold sweats. If the baby cries for more than 3 hours, parents should suspect the possibility of appendicitis.

After the above detailed introduction on "What are the causes of pain around the belly button in children", we all understand that pain around the belly button is a precursor to many diseases. So when the children around us have pain around the belly button, as parents we must understand and pay attention to the specific circumstances of the disease. Only in this way will we not miss the opportunity for treatment.