Can enteritis cause back pain?

Enterocolitis is an inflammatory change within the intestinal mucosa. Patients with acute enteritis may experience nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea, while patients with chronic enteritis tend to present with prolonged, recurrent episodes of abdominal pain, diarrhea, mucus stools, and indigestion. The abdominal pain will only be radiated to the lower back when the enteritis is particularly severe, but will not normally cause back pain. If a patient suffers from enteritis and also has low back pain, there is a high degree of suspicion of combined low back disorders, such as common acute lumbar sprains, lumbar fractures, lumbar disc herniation, lumbar spine osteophytes, lumbar muscle strain, fasciitis, etc., while patients with osteoporosis may also show early first symptoms of low back pain. Lumbar-related visceral lesions can also cause lumbar pain in patients. Common ones are urological diseases such as glomerulonephritis, pyelonephritis, kidney stones, ureteral stones, and gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer and pancreatic diseases of the digestive system. Therefore, it is recommended that patients with enterocolitis combined with back pain can go to the hospital in a timely manner to clarify the cause if they cannot tolerate it, and if necessary, undergo urinary routine, low back imaging and gastroscopy to assist the doctor in diagnosis and treatment to avoid delaying the condition and causing adverse consequences.