Symptoms and treatment of stomach diseases – the main symptom of stomach diseases is abdominal pain, which can be cramping, burning or dull.
How the pain relates to meals (hunger pain or pain after eating) can be characteristic of certain diseases. A feeling of fullness, early satiety, nausea, queasiness and vomiting can also indicate stomach disease.
Certain stomach-related diseases (especially tumours) often cause no symptoms, and frequently only cause complaints in advanced cases.
The following must always be regarded as alarm (warning) symptoms: loss of appetite, weight loss, nausea and vomiting, aversion to food, bleeding (black stools, vomiting blood) and stomach-emptying problems.
Sometimes it can also cause so-called paraneoplastic symptoms: recurrent phlebitis/thrombosis, acanthosis nigricans (brownish, velvety skin changes, mainly in the skin folds) and a special type of anaemia (microangiopathic haemolytic anaemia).
