Symptoms of acute abdomen in dogs

1. Visceral pain: visceral pain and stimulation are caused by excessive contraction or spasm of smooth muscles. It is paroxysmal visceral pain. Caused by the pressure on the organ envelope exceeding its capacity. Acute ischemia of organs is also a cause of persistent abdominal pain.

2. Body pain: abdominal wall pain or peritoneal skin reflex pain. Pain conducted by the cutaneous branches and secondary branches of the spinal cord sensory nerves manifests as high tension in the abdominal wall and resistance to palpation.

3. Stretch pain: The lesion of a certain viscera causes hyperesthesia or pain in the body surface area at a certain distance from the viscera. The pain is mostly sharp, severe, and clearly located, on a certain side and There may be local tension or skin allergies.

Causes of the disease

Stomach ligament laxity: hepatogastric ligament and hepatoduodenal ligament are lax.

Binging and overeating: eating too fast and keeping large amounts of food in the stomach for too long.

Exercise after eating: can cause stomach displacement.

Excessive accumulation of gas in the stomach: aerophagia, hyperacidity, and microbial fermentation that produces gas.

Weakened belching function: abnormal nozzle function, esophageal relaxation, etc.

Delayed gastric emptying: gastroptosis, decreased gastric motility, pyloric obstruction, Helicobacter pylori infection, chronic pancreatitis, etc.