What causes stomach pains when you’re hungry?



Patients with hungry stomach pain may be suffering from digestive system diseases, such as gastric disease (erosive gastritis, etc.), pancreatitis, duodenal ulcer, etc., and need to seek medical treatment in time.

1. Gastropathy:

(1) Celiac gastritis: it is the erosion of gastric mucosa induced by Helicobacter pylori infection, alcohol and other factors. Patients will have digestive symptoms such as epigastric discomfort, vague pain, gastric distension and stomach pain, and also vomiting blood and black stools.

(2) Gastric ulcer: patients with ulcers occurring in the mucous membrane or deep layers of the stomach lining, commonly found in middle-aged and elderly people, mainly due to the presence of Helicobacter pylori infection. Patients show symptoms such as stomach pain and gastric bleeding.

2. Pancreatitis: Pancreatitis includes acute and chronic pancreatitis. Patients with acute pancreatitis often present with acute abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, fever and organ failure, and require immediate medical attention, or else their lives are in danger. The patient with chronic pancreatitis is not as dangerous as the patient with acute pancreatitis, but he needs immediate medical attention to prevent perforation of the digestive tract, so as not to delay the condition.

3. duodenal ulcer: because the patient stomach acid, pepsin and duodenal mucosa between the imbalance, that is, too much stomach acid activate pepsin, digested the duodenal mucosa. Patients often present with symptoms such as abdominal pain during fasting, indigestion, and intestinal stress. If the symptoms continue to be unrelieved, it is recommended to consult a doctor in a timely manner, under the guidance of the doctor to clarify the cause of the disease and targeted treatment, do not take medication on their own, in order to avoid delays in the condition.