Waking up with stomach pain may be a normal phenomenon caused by exercise before going to bed, or it may be caused by acute gastroenteritis, gastric ulcer and other diseases, or it may be caused by other diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome.
1. Exercise before bedtime: if the patient before going to bed to exercise, may pull the abdominal muscles, after a night will lead to the patient woke up stomach pain phenomenon, which generally do not need special treatment, can be relieved on their own.
2. Acute gastroenteritis: acute gastroenteritis has a variety of causes, mainly including bacterial, viral and other pathogenic infections, stress, drugs and so on. Patients will have diarrhea, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and other symptoms, but also fever, headache, myalgia and other symptoms. Often associated with eating unclean food before going to bed.
3. Gastric ulcer: the main cause of gastric ulcer is Helicobacter pylori infection, the main symptom of the patient is stomach pain, mainly in the middle and upper abdomen, and there will be loss of appetite, postprandial fullness, weight loss, etc., and there will be vomiting, vomiting of blood, black stools and other symptoms.
Patients with symptoms of waking up with stomach pain may also be caused by other diseases such as irritable bowel syndrome, if it is caused by pressure on the abdomen while sleeping, no special treatment is needed. If it is caused by a disease, the patient should consult a doctor in time and follow the doctor’s instructions.