When having stomach pain, many people may think it is caused by gastritis. May also indicate gallstones. Although the symptoms are very similar, there are some observation points that can help differentiate the disease as follows:
Gallstones
- Severe pain, tightness under the sternum or under the right rib cage, lasting at least 30 minutes on average.
- Have nausea and vomiting
- Yellow body and eyes may also occur
- Symptoms usually occur after eating a large meal or a high-fat meal.
Gastric disease
- The pain may occur before or after eating: This symptom is called the most popular symptom that patients often have โปรโมชั่นพิเศษจาก UFABET สมัครตอนนี้ รับโบนัสทันที. It feels like there is gas in the stomach, a feeling of tightness like indigestion, especially after eating a large meal or greasy food. The pain will be felt intermittently, for hours, and then disappear.
- Taking antacids make my symptoms better: Another symptom that confuses many people is when they feel pain, they usually take stomach medicine and the symptoms seem to get better, but after a while the pain comes back again. It usually hurts in the upper chest, epigastric region, or in some cases, the pain radiates through to the back.
- Black stools or vomiting blood may occur if symptoms are severe.
- Often there is a dull pain in the epigastric region, which may radiate up into the chest.
Although the symptoms of gallstones are similar to gastritis, it is noticeable that stomach pain after eating a large meal or greasy food is chronic. Even if the stomach pain is well treated with gastritis medicine, after a while the stomach pain will return.
Another point to note is that when having gallstones, the patient will often have a fever along with the stomach pain, which is caused by inflammation of the gallbladder. If it is just gastritis, the patient will not have a fever.