Caution: Heaviness in the left hypochondrium

In medicine, there are signs of disease, each of which indicates not one disease, but several possible. Such symptoms are called symptoms. An example of a symptom is heaviness in the left hypochondrium.

In practice, the symptoms are not treated one by one, only by groups. Thus, heaviness in the left hypochondrium is often accompanied by pain of varying degrees of strength and different nature. There are accompanying signs: disorders of stool, digestion, fever, chills, weakness, nausea, vomiting, etc. Patients, in some cases, specify the localization (location) of unpleasant sensations: there is a heaviness in the left side under the rib or heaviness in the sides.

Symptoms grouped together are called syndromes. The syndrome points to a certain disease.

Severity in the left hypochondrium, along with other symptoms, may indicate a large group of diseases. First of all, these are diseases of the abdominal cavity: the pancreas, the spleen. Dull pain and heaviness under the left rib often means gastritis, as well as gastric ulcer. This symptom is likely and causes anxiety when blood cancer begins.

• In the case of acute pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas), the feeling of heaviness under the left rib grows into an unbearable shivering pain in the upper abdomen, which does not stop and pushes back. Nauseated, weakness increases, vomiting occurs. The temperature may rise. Obligatory call of an ambulance and the subsequent hospitalization, in order to avoid dangerous complications.
• Diseases of the spleen are also characterized by the severity of the left under the rib - for example, the spleen cyst or its tumor. In cases of pain accompanying the severity, as well as an increase in temperature, it may be necessary to talk about a spleen infarction or its abscess (pain gives to the left shoulder). With the timely help of a doctor, all spleen diseases, except for cancer and sepsis, have a favorable outcome of treatment.
• With chronic and acute gastritis, the mucous membrane of the stomach is inflamed. The disease can last for years. Aggravations and periods of calm current alternate.

With acute gastritis, the heaviness on the left under the spoon is characteristic. Along with this, the patient feels the raspiranie in the left side. Soon after eating, he begins to feel sick, vomits with undigested food, mucus and bile. The temperature rises. With timely assistance of a doctor gastritis can be suspended for a long time.

With chronic gastritis, for a long time there may not be symptoms at all, which are indicated by it, the illness "awaits" an exacerbation. Chronic gastritis is dangerous because it eventually causes more severe diseases: a stomach ulcer, a tumor, polyps of the stomach and intestines.

• The stomach ulcer is treated successfully today, unless it is a matter of perforating or degenerating into a cancerous tumor. The onset of the disease is felt as the heaviness on the left under the rib. Later, pain is applied in the spoon, usually not strong, dull and prolonged; Painkillers do not help. Heaviness and pain, as a rule, are felt before eating and are associated with a feeling of hunger. Possible heartburn, frequent constipation, acidic eructations. With severe severity and pain, vomiting occurs, after which it becomes easier. Addressing a doctor when these symptoms occur will save the patient's life and significantly increase the chances of recovery.
• In the case of chronic myelogenous leukemia , tingling and heaviness in the left hypochondrium are observed. Patients find out at a palpation in this place some kind of compaction. Unfortunately, this oncological disease is incurable and ends with death. But with an urgent appeal to an oncologist, the patient has a chance to extend his life from two to five years. Of these, about 3 years of health will be in relative equilibrium and will not torment the doomed. If treatment is not carried out, patients die much earlier.

So, the heaviness in the left hypochondrium is a symptom. By its manifestation alone it is impossible to understand what kind of disease it means. Indications of diseases in the syndrome are more accurate, but require research and observation. The very same diseases can appear in the list from less dangerous to extremely dangerous. For this reason, finding the symptom of gravity on the left requires an immediate medical attention.