What Causes Abdominal Cramping?

Gastrointestinal cramps, also known as spastic colic, are the most common functional abdominal pain in children with acute abdominal pain. In a healthy child, if sudden, intermittent abdominal pain occurs suddenly, and no abnormal signs can be found during the interval, this is the main feature of the disease. The child's abdominal pain can last from a few minutes to tens of minutes. After repeated episodes of tens of minutes or hours, abdominal pain may no longer occur. ^[1-2]

Gastrointestinal cramps

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The treatment can be decided according to the score of intestinal spasm.

Treatment principle

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Alcoholic hot gas emits acute stomach cramps

Apply onion ginger external application therapy

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To develop good habits and diet. Develop a reasonable diet system to eat on time and eat regularly and quantitatively. Patients with stomach problems are advised to eat less and eat more. Sit and eat, don't stand or squat, chew slowly, talk less, don't read newspapers and TV. It is not advisable to exercise immediately after a meal.

Restrict slag foods. Avoid fried and fried foods and foods containing more crude fiber, such as celery, chives, bacon, dried fish and various coarse grains. These foods will not only damage the gastric mucosa, but also cause a large amount of secretion of gastric juice and increase the burden on the stomach. Eat less or not eat spicy, cold, or sour foods.

Enhance nutrition and choose foods that are easy to digest, contain enough calories, and are rich in protein and vitamins. Such as porridge, milk, soft rice, soy milk, eggs, lean meat, fresh vegetables and fruits rich in vitamins A, B, and C. These foods can strengthen the body's resistance, help repair damaged tissue and promote ulcer healing.

Cooking should be proper, and steaming, roasting, frying, and stewing are preferred. Fried, fried, smoked and other cooked dishes are not easy to digest and will affect the healing of ulcers. Care should be taken not to drink carbonated beverages, coffee, strong tea, etc., to quit smoking and alcohol.

Eat less fried food

Fried food is not easy to digest, it is easy to increase gastrointestinal burden, induce this disease, and it is also easy to cause problems such as obesity and hyperlipidemia, which is not healthy.

Eat less preserved food

Salted foods are mostly immersed in salt, which is harmful to the gastrointestinal function. Some salted foods also contain ingredients that can cause cancer.

Eat less cold food

Irritating foods and cold foods have certain damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa. Frequent eating can cause gastrointestinal inflammatory diseases, and then induce indigestion.

Eat regularly

Regular eating can make the gastrointestinal digestive fluid secretion form and help the digestion of food.

Meal at regular intervals

It is very regular to eat on a weekday. Suddenly eating and drinking suddenly, the digestive juice secreted by the stomach is not enough, which will naturally cause indigestion.

Food temperature should be right

Food is too cold or too hot, which can cause damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa. It is best to eat when the food is not hot or cold and warm.

Chew slowly

The more you chew your food, the easier it is for the gastrointestinal tract to digest, and the lower the chance of indigestion.

Drinking water depends on time

Drinking water after a meal will dilute the gastric juice and reduce the ability of the stomach to digest food. Therefore, it is best to drink water an hour before a meal.

Reasons for keeping warm and cold

Cold stomach is prone to flatulence and impaired stomach function. In order to avoid indigestion problems, we must pay attention to keep the stomach warm.

Fruit selection

1. Lemon promotes intestinal peristalsis: Vitamin C has a lot of content and has the function of promoting intestinal peristalsis.

2. Cabbage promotes gastrointestinal peristalsis: a large amount of crude fiber can promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, help digestion, and prevent dry stools;
3 Apple stimulates intestinal peristalsis: Apple contains cellulose, which can stimulate intestinal peristalsis, accelerate bowel movements, and have laxative action;
4 Tomatoes aid in digestion of fats: Tomatoes contain a special ingredient, lycopene, which helps digestion, diuresis, and assists gastric juice to digest fat;
5. Kiwi clears body waste: it contains more dietary fiber and proteolytic enzymes, which can quickly remove harmful metabolites accumulated in the body;
6. Hawthorn eliminates meat accumulation: Hawthorn contains a variety of organic acids such as maslinic acid, and contains lipolytic enzymes, which can enhance the role of enzymes after entering the stomach, promote meat digestion, and help cholesterol conversion;
7. Grapefruit promotes digestion: The acidic substances in grapefruit can help increase digestive juice, promote digestive function, nutrition is easily absorbed, and you can also make honey grapefruit tea at home;
8. Fresh vegetables to relieve fatigue: when tired, you can add fresh vegetables, fruits, fresh milk, soy milk and other alkaline foods, the body will accumulate more lactic acid after fatigue, increase alkaline foods, can maintain the acid-base balance of body fluids, relieve fatigue.