Painful sensations are an alarming signal that makes you think about your health. By the nature, duration, intensity and localization of pain, health workers can deliver a preliminary, and sometimes accurate diagnosis, allowing, if necessary, to take emergency measures or designate a number of additional studies. Consider what factors can cause dull pain in the right side.
Causes of dull pain in the right side
In most cases, painful sensations of localization coincide with the location of the diseased organs or their structures, but sometimes the pain is reflected, which occurs far from the affected area. Given this, we list the main diagnoses in which women complain of dull pain in their sides on the right side.
Ectopic pregnancy
If one-sided dull pain is felt in the right side in the lower abdomen, it gives into the crotch, waist, legs, you can suspect this dangerous condition when the development of the fetal egg occurs in the right fallopian tube. In this case, the pain increases with movement, changing the position of the body, can be permanent or occur regularly. Other features are:
- spotting spotting;
- a drop in blood pressure;
- elevated body temperature.
Right-sided inflammation of the fallopian tubes, ovaries
Constant blunt pain in the right side, extending to the lower back, can be a sign of salpingitis , oophoritis , or adnexitis - a simultaneous damage to the ovaries and uterine tubes. In this case, the woman also often observes the presence of copious secretions from the genital tract, an increase in body temperature.
Appendicitis
In this case, the pains on the right side can also be characterized as blunt, but they often change their localization, character and intensity as the pathological process progresses. Additional signs of inflammation of the appendix are:
- increased body temperature;
- nausea;
- vomiting.
Chronic diseases of the digestive system
Dull pain in the right side and such symptoms as rumbling in the abdomen, nausea, vomiting, belching , etc., often report a malfunction in the gastrointestinal tract, and with this type of pain it is more often chronic processes. So, you can suspect:
- dyskinesia of bile ducts;
- cholecystitis;
- colitis;
- enteritis;
- hepatitis, etc.
Urological diseases
Dull pain in the right side from the back is characteristic of inflammatory lesions of the urinary system. Urolithiasis, pyelonephritis, hydronephrosis, etc. may also be accompanied by:
- frequent urge to urinate:
- opacity and darkening of urine;
- presence of blood in the urine;
- increased body temperature.