The human body is a very complex and interconnected system. It must be understood that any symptom can characterize many diseases, sometimes it is difficult even for a qualified doctor to determine which pathology of which organ caused this or that manifestation.
Why does it prick in the left side? If we consider the human body as a multi-storey system, then we can understand how all organs and systems are located relative to each other.
In order to better understand the possible pathology that causes pain in the left half of the body, we conditionally divide this area into three parts. The first, upper part, is located above the costal arch, and the second is enclosed between the left 10 rib and the ilium spine. The third part, the lower abdomen, is all that is to the left below the navel.
Let's start from the very beginning. In the upper part is the heart, part of the stomach and liver. Thus, the pathology of these systems can cause some discomfort for patients, which is mainly localized on the left.
Patients with heart diseases very often complain that they have colitis in their left side. These are irradiated pain along the nerve trunks. Sometimes such a pain syndrome, patients stop on their own at home. But there are situations when the pain is too pronounced, and the work of the heart can be restored only in a hospital.
Inflammation of the pancreatic parenchyma, stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer - a disease with a possible manifestation of intense pain in the left side. The doctor always carefully collects an anamnesis from patients who have colitis in the left side. After all, with a detailed survey, you can find out exactly which organ caused this symptom. For example, pain from the pancreas is most often herpes zoster. What can not be said about the ulcer. Such pain is most often localized acute and intense. Liver pathology rarely causes pain on the left, but if it does happen, then such pain is not intense, aching.
If a person complains that he is pricking in his left side, mainly in its middle part, then the following diseases can be suspected:
- inflammatory and destructive kidney disease;
- trauma or oncological pathology of the spleen;
- functional disorders of the descending colon;
- atypical location of the inflamed appendicular process.
It must be borne in mind that each of the diseases listed above has a number of specific symptoms, except for pain, by which it can be differentiated with another pathology. And the necessary diagnostic minimum will allow a more accurate diagnosis and treatment of patients.
Pricking the left side below: what to do?
First you need to determine the intensity of the pain, if the symptoms do not stop with antispasmodics or NSAIDs, bother for a long time and increase, then you need to urgently seek help from specialists.
People who have colitis in the left side should realize that such a symptom can cause:
- intestinal obstruction;
- inflammation of hemorrhoids ;
- fistulas and ulcers of the rectum;
- foreign bodies;
- ectopic pregnancy and ovarian disease in women;
- An increase in the prostate and pathology of the inflammatory nature of the pelvic organs;
- Oncological pathology of the pelvis.
Thus, we see that there are a lot of diseases, and they have a common symptom. That is why, in the presence of complaints of pain in the lower abdomen, it is mandatory to conduct superficial and then deep palpation of the abdomen, the use of digital rectal examination and vaginal bimanual palpation in women. After these diagnostic methods, the diagnosis should not be difficult. However, in some situations, these methods may not be informative, then instrumental diagnostic methods will be required.