Spleen Pain - Causes And Symptoms Of Spleen Pain. Why Does The Spleen Hurt And What To Do?

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Spleen pain causes and symptoms

Definition of disease

The spleen is an organ of the human body that is essential because it helps to normalize human metabolism. It performs a hematopoietic function, forming lymphocytes and erythrocytes, and is also a natural filter, since it perfectly cleans the blood from harmful substances, viruses, various bacteria, and forms immunity.

It is quite rare to remember about spleen diseases until she herself reminds of herself with pain. Ailments in the area of this organ indicate that normal work is disrupted. Since the spleen does not have pain receptors, its pathology can be detected only with a full examination by a specialist. Failures in the work of the spleen are always fraught with some loss of the ability of the human body to fight numerous diseases.

Why does the spleen hurt?

A number of significant factors are known that are the causes of pain in the spleen. Direct damage to an organ due to external and internal influences. These effects include a gunshot wound, cut and stab wounds, severe internal injuries, and fractured ribs on the left side. The most dangerous injuries to the spleen are often accompanied by dangerous internal hemorrhages, with rather intense pain and possible traumatic shock.

Spleen pain causes

Spleen pain can also be caused by parasites. One of the most common is unicameral echinococcus. If you do not start treatment on time, then dangerous ruptures in the spleen are likely. It is rather difficult to fix the presence of parasites; therefore, modern methods of ultrasound examination and a tomograph are used.

The existence of tumors of a benign or malignant type is quite possible. Unfortunately, at an early stage it is quite difficult to find out, therefore, with muted pain in the left side of the side and severity, you should immediately go to the doctor.

Spleen pain symptoms

Injury to the spleen is signaled by severe pain on the left side of the hypochondrium, subsequently pain can cover the area from the shoulder to the scapula. Abnormal functioning is also signaled by nausea and vomiting, tremors, decreased blood pressure, bloodlessness, and shortness of breath. If a person has the above symptoms, he certainly needs to lie on his back or recline on the left side.

Various infectious diseases of other organs are the result of damage to the spleen. These are serious consequences of typhoid fever, anthrax, sepsis, infectious lymphocytosis and mononucleosis, malaria, hepatitis, syphilis and other ailments. The existence of blood clots in the arteries can cause splenic infarction. Atherosclerosis, diffuse diseases, leukemia, lymphosarcoma, certain infectious diseases often cause a thrombus. As a rule, signs of spleen thrombosis are detected when it is inflamed.

An abscess of the spleen is activated with certain consequences of infectious diseases. The causes of an abscess can be salmonellosis, post-infarction, post-traumatic infections. The first signal of a spleen abscess is fever. In addition, many patients complain of severe left-sided pain. With tuberculosis of the spleen, there is a strong increase in its volume, which is accompanied by incredibly severe pain.

With an increase in the spleen, a dense protrusion occurs in the left side, the skin turns pale, in particular the front of the head. Cough, any movement, even lying on the left side are accompanied by stabbing pain and significant pressure. Fatigue of the body, decreased immunity and pain in the umbilical region are observed. The human lymphatic system, in this case, is always affected by poisons and toxins. Most likely they are the result of the work of pathogenic microbes that have remained in our body due to untreated infectious diseases.

You can fight these serious diseases using various methods, the main thing is to warm those places that are affected by the infection. You can use pepper patch or warm compresses.

What to do with spleen pain?

Initially, spleen disease does not manifest itself as pain, they often appear after its significant increase. Therefore, as soon as the slightest discomfort appears in this area, the above signs of the disease are visible, you should immediately contact a therapist. After examining the patient, the doctor will be able to establish the state of the organ using standard palpation during inspiration. The doctor's conclusion should also be confirmed by the results of modern analyzes, the necessary studies of an ultrasound scan and a tomograph.

It is worth treating the very cause of the disease in order to avoid repeated failures in the work of the spleen. Having established a preliminary diagnosis, the therapist will refer you to the proper professional: infectious disease specialist, hematologist, traumatologist, surgeon or oncologist. If the treatment does not give the expected results, then the issue is resolved with the help of surgical intervention. Many doctors recommend eating right and living a healthy lifestyle in order to prevent such serious consequences.

To quickly normalize the lymphatic system, proper breathing is necessary. With a deep inhalation and exhalation, the muscles that are responsible for the movement of the lungs stretch, press on the intestinal lymphatic vessels, thereby accelerating the movement of blood through the vessels. Spleen performance will also improve with regular exercise, exercise, and walking. In this case, rapid and deeper breathing is observed.

Article author: Mochalov Pavel Alexandrovich | d. m. n. therapist

Education: Moscow Medical Institute. IM Sechenov, specialty - "General Medicine" in 1991, in 1993 "Occupational Diseases", in 1996 "Therapy".