Pain under the left rib cage

There is a dull pain under the ribs on the left side of the stomach, which is towards the heart. There are many reasons for this kind of pain. The most common one is enteritis. Enteritis is quite common in life and can easily cause diarrhea and constipation. If it is more serious, it can even cause intestinal polyps. There is a certain risk of inducing tumors. In daily life, timely treatment should be carried out to prevent the occurrence of enteritis.

Dangers of enteritis:

1. Intestinal stenosis: This condition often occurs in patients with a disease course of more than five to twenty-five years or with extensive lesions, and its general sites of disease are mainly the left colon, rectum, and sigmoid colon.

2. Intestinal polyps and colon cancer: If enteritis lasts for more than five years, its inflammation will stimulate the intestinal ulcer surface for a long time, making it easy for abnormal proliferation to occur, thus forming intestinal polyps. Moreover, if the intestinal polyps are larger than one centimeter, the danger is extremely high and they can easily become cancerous.

3. Blood in stool: The severity of the disease can also be measured by the amount of blood in stool.

4. Toxic intestinal dilatation: It is a serious complication of enteritis. However, it is often more common in patients with panenteritis, and the mortality rate of the disease is also very high, almost reaching 50%.

Prevention measures for enteritis:

1. If you are weak and have poor resistance, it is easy to cause enteritis. In severe cases, it may also cause infection. Therefore, you should pay more attention to food hygiene. Avoid eating raw, cold, hard and spoiled food, and avoid drinking alcohol and spicy and irritating condiments.

2. Patients with enteritis should also strengthen physical exercise and enhance their physical fitness, such as practicing Tai Chi, to strengthen the waist and kidneys.

3. Always pay attention to keeping your abdomen warm.

4. In addition to preventing the abdomen from getting cold, you should also control your emotions and pay attention to your diet. During the attack and remission periods of enteritis, you should avoid eating beans and bean products, wheat and flour products, as well as garlic, leeks, potatoes, preserved eggs, cabbage, peanuts, melon seeds and other gas-producing foods. If you eat the above foods, the gas in the gastrointestinal tract will increase, which will affect gastrointestinal motility and of course aggravate the condition.

5. Persimmons, pomegranates, and apples all contain tannic acid and pectin, which can have astringent and antidiarrheal effects. They can be eaten in moderation for chronic colitis.