Abdominal pain after drinking alcohol may be a physiological phenomenon, but also may be the manifestation of certain diseases, such as acute pancreatitis, peptic ulcer, etc., should be timely consultation to identify the cause of the disease.
1. Physiological factors: After a large amount of alcohol enters the human body, due to the role of ethanol directly stimulate the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, resulting in abdominal spasmodic pain.
2. Pathologic factors:
(1) Alcohol can promote the secretion of pancreatic juice, when the pancreatic outflow tract can not adequately drain a large amount of pancreatic juice, the pressure in the pancreatic duct rises, triggering damage to the adenoalveolar cells, leading to acute pancreatitis; most often manifested as persistent severe abdominal pain (mostly located in the middle-left epigastrium or even the whole abdomen), often accompanied by abdominal distension.
(2) If a large amount of alcohol consumption will damage the gastric mucosa, reduce the self-protection ability of the stomach, may induce peptic ulcer; most of the manifestations of recurrent rhythmic pain in the middle and upper abdomen, or bleeding, perforation and other complications as the first symptom.
But do not rule out other factors caused by, it is recommended that if you exclude the physiological causes, you should consult a doctor in a timely manner, ask the doctor to clarify the cause of the disease, give targeted treatment.