If You Have One of These 7 Types of Stomach Pain, Here's What it Means

Stomach issues can be quite discomforting - yet despite the uncomfortable feeling, how often have you really looked into what is going on in your gut? Knowing the signs and symptoms of the various kinds of pain you are experiencing can shed light onto the underlying cause of your stomach issues. Here are seven of the most common stomach symptoms and what they may be telling you about your health:

1. Burning sensation in the chest

Possible cause: Acid reflux

Acid reflux is caused by stomach acid that has washed back up into your chest. Most people tend to experience the burning sensation right beneath the breastbone.

What to do: Unfortunately, there's no one size fits all. Foods that trigger heartburn may vary from person to person. But once you have figured out what food is bothering you, cutting it out of your diet ought to help. You may also try adjust your sleep position - sleep slightly propped up (at about a 15-degree angle. This will help keep the acid down in your stomach - where it belongs.


2. Pain around your belly button

Possible cause: Appendicitis

Appendix pain usually starts with a dull pain around the belly button area. As it worsens, the intense discomfort will move towards your right hip bone.

What to do: In a case like this, it's important that you head to the hospital as soon as possible, as you will need surgery in order to have it removed. Not taking your appendix out right away can run the risk of the appendix rupturing, which is incredibly dangerous.


3. Sharp pain under your ribs

Possible cause: Gallstones

Gallstones are little lumps of cholesterol and bile, which vary from the size of a pea to that of a golf ball. No matter how big or small your gallstones may be, an obstruction in your gallbladder causes a sharp pain that tends to worsen after eating.

What to do: Estrogen, contraceptive use and general fertility can impact your risk for getting gallstones - it also tends to occur more in women. Gallstones usually aren't cause for major concern, however if problems persist, surgery might be an option.
 
4. A burning sensation in your stomach

Possible cause: Peptic ulcer
Daily chronic pain that tends to worsen after eating is a classic symptom of an ulcer. This burning sensation will occur in your gut.

What to do: Stop taking medicine like ibuprofen, as they may make the problem worse. It's also essential that you visit your doctor. Depending on how severe your ulcer is, you may need to take medicine or have surgery.

5. Whole belly discomfort and the urge to run to the bathroom

Possible cause: Lactose intolerance

Some individuals are unable to eat lactose. And pain associated from lactose intolerance is not confined to a specific area. The whole belly generally tends to feel discomfort, because it's usually a small intestine problem. Unfortunately, it gets worse. The discomfort caused in your belly is a combination of gas and diarrhea.

What to do: The best place to start is to figure out your level of lactose intolerance. A few slices of pizza, for instance, may not cause you much harm, but a bite of ice cream may send you rushing to the bathroom. Test what dairy you can and cannot have whenever you plan to stay home. Have a couple of glasses of milk and see what happens, then take it from there.
 
6. Intestinal cramps and chronic diarrhea

Possible cause: Gluten sensitivity

You may be allergic to gluten or have celiac disease. In which case, you'll notice bloating, gas and cramps in your gut after eating foods that contain gluten.

What to do: The best course of action would be to test how you react to certain foods and speak with your doctor to determine how to eliminate them. If your gluten allergy is severe you might want to speak to a nutritionist, make sure that your are getting enough of the nutrients you need.


7. Bloody diarrhea, pain, and fever

Possible cause: Colitis or Crohn's disease

Symptoms are generally associated with gas, cramps and bloating. You may also discover blood in your stool, possibly accompanied by nausea and fever.

What to do: Speak to your doctor immediately. Both Crohn's disease and colitis operate on a spectrum of severity. Treatment may vary accordingly. Your doctor may prescribe anti-inflammatory medicine or advise a more extensive treatment. As always, it's better to be safe than sorry as both conditions can land you in hospital if not managed properly.


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Plant-rich diet protects against foodborne pathogens, mice study shows

Mice fed a plant-rich diet are less susceptible to gastrointestinal (GI) infection from a pathogen such as the one currently under investigation for a widespread E. coli outbreak tied to romaine lettuce, UT Southwestern researchers report. A strain of E. coli known as EHEC, which causes debilitating and potentially deadly inflammation in the colon with symptoms such as bloody diarrhea and vomiting, is implicated in several foodborne outbreaks worldwide each year.

There has been a lot of hearsay about whether a plant-based diet is better for intestinal health than a typical Western diet, which is higher in oils and protein but relatively low in fruits and vegetables. So we decided to test it." Vanessa Sperandio, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and biochemistry at UT Southwestern

Her study on a mouse model of EHEC is published this week in Nature Microbiology.

"Plant-rich diets are high in pectin, a gel-like substance found in many fruits and vegetables. Pectin is digested by the gut microbiota into galacturonic acid, which we find can inhibit the virulence of EHEC," she adds.

"This is relevant to public health because EHEC outbreaks lead to hemorrhagic colitis, which is debilitating and sometimes causes death, particularly in the very young and the elderly," she says.

Intestinal pathogens like EHEC sense the complex chemistry inside the GI tract to compete with the gut's resident microbiota to establish a foothold, Sperandio says. Over centuries, the pathogens have developed different strategies to compete against the so-called good, or commensal, microbes that normally line the gut.

Those commensals include harmless strains of E. coli living in the colons of humans and other mammals, where they help the host's normal digestion process, she adds. The word commensal means "eating at the same table" and that is what the symbiotic bacteria that make up the gut's microbiota do.

The commensals that line the gut present a significant barrier to intestinal pathogens, Sperandio explains. EHEC and similar gram-negative bugs overcome that barrier by deploying a secretion system called T3SS.

T3SSs act like molecular syringes to inject a mix of virulence proteins into the cells lining the host's colon, setting off inflammation and symptoms of infection. Because mice are unaffected by EHEC, researchers use a similar pathogen, Citrobacter rodentium, in mouse studies, Sperandio explains.
"Our study finds first that the good E. coli and the pathogenic ones like EHEC use different sugars as nutrients," she says, adding that the two types of E. coli may have evolved to avoid competing for the same energy sources. "Second, we find that dietary pectin protects against the pathway the pathogenic EHEC uses to become more virulent."

Another type of commensal gut bacteria breaks down dietary pectin from fruit and vegetables, creating galacturonic acid, a sugar acid that the EHEC and C. rodentium use in two ways. Initially, the pathogen uses that sugar acid as an energy source to expand in the gut, Sperandio says.

"Once the sugar acid becomes depleted, the pathogen changes its survival strategy, almost like flipping a switch," she says. Instead of using the galacturonic acid for nourishment, the infectious bacteria employs it in a signaling pathway that increases the EHEC's and similar bacteria's virulence using the syringe-like T3SS.

In the study, mice fed pectin for about a week withstood infection. Comparing the colons of six mice fed a chow diet with 5 percent extra pectin from citrus peel with four mice on a typical diet, the researchers found a much lower rate of infection in the pectin-eating mice, Sperandio says.

The amount of bacteria in the mouse gut was measured by daily stool checks and by analysis of the amount of bacteria in a pouch at the juncture of the small and large intestines, called the cecum, at the experiment's end.

The researchers found that mice on the pectin-enriched chow had about 10,000 bacteria in the cecum compared to 1 million bacteria in mice on the typical diet. The pectin group also had fewer symptoms, she says, adding that a pectin level of 5 percent appears to prevent the pathogen from activating its virulence repertoire.

She stresses that the research is one step in a journey to define the molecular mechanisms that govern how the commensal species in the gut impact the virulence of intestinal pathogens.

"This is not translatable to humans yet. We hope a better understanding of how intestinal disease develops will lead to strategies to reduce the incidence or, at least, the symptoms caused by these gram-negative pathogens, possibly through new vaccines or drugs," she says.

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