Pain in the upper abdomen (epigastrium) develops with many diseases of the gastrointestinal tract: intestinal infections, gastritis, and peptic ulcer, pathologies of the organs of the pancreatobiliary zone. Some extra-abdominal causes include lower lobe pneumonia, intercostal neuralgia, and lesions of the abdominal aorta and its branches. For diagnostic purposes, a complex of instrumental studies (ultrasound, radiography and CT, endoscopy) is carried out in combination with analyzes and functional methods. To stop the pain, analgesics, antispasmodics and antisecretory drugs are used. A different treatment regimen is selected taking into account the underlying pathology.
Mushy stools are softening of stools that look like separate soft pieces or a heterogeneous liquid mass. The symptom is often accompanied by abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, flatulence. Defecation disorders are observed with stress and nutritional errors, infectious and specific inflammatory bowel diseases, fermentopathy. To determine the cause, a survey ultrasound of the abdomen, colonoscopy, endoscopy, X-ray of the gastrointestinal tract, coprogram is performed. To normalize the stool, enzymes, probiotics, antibacterial agents are used.