There are many organs in the umbilicus, such as the stomach, duodenum, pancreas, gallbladder, spleen, liver, and transverse colon. Pain above the umbilicus can occur with a variety of disorders. Abdominal pain above the navel can be analyzed from several causes:
First gastroenteritis. Eating something unclean, causing a bacterial infection, or food poisoning, and starting to have stomach cramps a few hours after a meal, followed by nausea and vomiting, is called gastroenteritis.
The second cause is gastroparesis, abdominal pain caused by inflammation or ulceration of the stomach or duodenum. The pain is usually above the belly button and is caused by excessive secretion of stomach acid. In a few patients, the pain above the navel is even caused by stomach cancer, and a gastroscopy must be done to find the exact cause.
The third cause is gallbladder stones, which fall out and get stuck in the gallbladder duct, causing the gallbladder to contract and produce severe abdominal pain, usually in the upper abdomen, often thought to be stomach pain, usually half an hour to an hour after a meal, and the gallbladder stones are often complicated by cholecystitis, and the bouts of pain become a constant point of pain with significant pressure in the right upper abdomen.
Of course there are many other etiologies that can cause supraumbilical pain, such as superior mesenteric artery vascular factors, coronary artery disease, and patients with acute heart attack can also present with supraumbilical pain, and this is the time to go for a specialist examination to clarify the cause and treat it symptomatically.