Why is the right side pricking? This question is asked daily by many people. The whole problem is that the person does not even suggest whether he needs to go to the doctor with such complaints, and if necessary, to which one. Let's try to figure it out.
Very often, people cannot even imagine how many diseases can occur with symptoms of pain in the side. Most complaints boil down to a simple “stabbing in the right side," while patients can’t answer anything else.
First you need to deal with the nature and intensity of the pain. Everyone knows that pain can be mild, intense and very intense. So, in the second and third cases, you definitely need to see a doctor, preferably a therapist.
The nature of the pain can also be varied: cutting, burning, pulling, aching, stitching pains. This characteristic of the pain syndrome can only indicate that an acute or chronic process, as well as determine the severity of the disease.
Patients with liver pathology can tell the therapist that they have colitis in their right side. This symptom can be called specific, because the liver is located directly to the right under the costal arch. Any changes in the structure of the liver can cause pain. For example, cholelithiasis, which is characterized by a violation of the composition of bile and the formation of stones. At the same time, stones can penetrate the excretory ducts of the liver and cause hepatic colic - these are very intense pains of a cutting or stitching nature. As a rule, they do not pass after taking antispasmodic drugs and require qualified medical care. If this is an exacerbation, and not the first occurrence of the disease, then patients know what to do. In other cases, you must consult a surgeon.
Hepatitis - an infectious disease of the liver, can also cause pain in the right hypochondrium. However, these pains are not pronounced, aching in nature. Most often, patients with hepatitis turn to the infectious disease doctor with other complaints.
If your right side is pricking, then this may also indicate kidney pathology. The most common disease that occurs with pain in the right side is renal colic. The formation of kidney stones and their passage through the ducts can cause very intense pain, as well as urinary retention and general inflammatory syndrome.
There is a concept of the atypical location of the appendicular process. It can be located directly behind the liver, and if inflammation occurs, this will lead to the formation of specific symptoms of appendicitis. Such patients complain that they have colitis in the right side. Often it is not possible to immediately determine the presence of appendicitis, however, after conducting some tests of functional diagnostics, making the correct diagnosis is not difficult. It should be noted that such patients should be in the surgical department, under the supervision of a doctor.
We should not forget that in the projection of the right side of the abdomen, or rather the upper part, is part of the pancreas and stomach. Some pathology of these organs can also occur with clinical signs of pain. These pains can be called reflected, because these organs are not located directly from the right side.
Oncological patients also quite often complain that they have colitis in the right side. This may be due to the localization of the tumor on the right side, its growth in nearby organs and tissues, as well as metastasis of cancer cells to the lymph nodes and other organs.
Inflammatory processes of muscle tissue, as well as neuralgia and other neurological disorders can occur with pain in the right side of the body. However, they are not intense, they are stopped by local or intramuscular administration of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.