How Do You Know That Your Intestines Have Ruptured

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Medical condition

Gastrointestinal perforation
Other names	Ruptured bowel,^[1] gastrointestinal rupture

Costless air under the right diaphragm from a perforated bowel.
Specialty	Gastroenterology, emergency medicine
Symptoms	Intestinal pain, tenderness^[ii]
Complications	Sepsis, abscess^[two]
Usual onset	Sudden or more gradual^[2]
Causes	Trauma, following colonoscopy, bowel obstruction, colon cancer, diverticulitis, stomach ulcers, ischemic bowel, C. difficile infection^[2]
Diagnostic method	CT browse, patently X-ray^[ii]
Treatment	Emergency surgery in the course of an exploratory laparotomy^[two]
Medication	Intravenous fluids, antibiotics^[2]

Gastrointestinal perforation, as well known as ruptured bowel,^[1] is a hole in the wall of part of the gastrointestinal tract.^[2] The gastrointestinal tract includes the esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and big intestine.^[two] ^[1] Symptoms include severe abdominal pain and tenderness.^[2] When the hole is in the breadbasket or early on part of the small intestine the onset of pain is typically sudden while with a hole in the large intestine onset may be more gradual.^[2] The pain is usually constant in nature.^[2] Sepsis, with an increased middle rate, increased animate rate, fever, and confusion may occur.^[2]

The cause can include trauma such as from a knife wound, eating a sharp object, or a medical procedure such as colonoscopy, bowel obstruction such equally from a volvulus, colon cancer, or diverticulitis, tummy ulcers, ischemic bowel, and a number of infections including C. difficile.^[ii] A hole allows intestinal contents to enter the abdominal cavity.^[2] The entry of bacteria results in a condition known as peritonitis or in the formation of an abscess.^[ii] A hole in the stomach tin can besides atomic number 82 to a chemical peritonitis due to gastric acid.^[ii] A CT scan is typically the preferred method of diagnosis; yet, free air from a perforation can often be seen on evidently X-ray.^[two]

Perforation anywhere along the alimentary canal typically requires emergency surgery in the grade of an exploratory laparotomy.^[2] This is usually carried out forth with intravenous fluids and antibiotics.^[2] A number of different antibiotics may be used such as piperacillin/tazobactam or the combination of ciprofloxacin and metronidazole.^[three] ^[four] Occasionally the hole can exist sewn airtight while other times a bowel resection is required.^[two] Fifty-fifty with maximum treatment the risk of death tin be equally high as 50%.^[2] A pigsty from a stomach ulcer occurs in about 1 per 10,000 people per year, while one from diverticulitis occurs in about 0.iv per 10,000 people per year.^[1] ^[5]

Signs and symptoms [edit]

Signs and symptoms may include a sudden pain in the epigastrium to the correct of the midline indicating the perforation of a duodenal ulcer, while a gastric ulcer perforation reveals itself past burning pain in epigastrium, with flatulence and dyspepsia.

In abdominal perforation, pain starts from the site of perforation and spreads across the belly.

Gastrointestinal perforation results in severe abdominal pain intensified by motility, nausea, vomiting and hematemesis. Afterward symptoms include fever and or chills.^[6] In any instance, the abdomen becomes rigid with tenderness and rebound tenderness. Afterwards some time the belly becomes silent and heart sounds can be heard all over. Patient stops passing flatus and motion, abdomen is distended.

The symptoms of esophageal rupture may include sudden onset of chest pain.

Causes [edit]

Underlying causes include gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, appendicitis, gastrointestinal cancer, diverticulitis, inflammatory bowel disease, superior mesenteric artery syndrome, trauma, vascular Ehlers–Danlos syndrome,^[seven] and ascariasis. Typhoid fever,^[8] non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs,^[9] ^[10] ingestion of corrosives may also be responsible.^[11]

Eating multiple magnets tin too pb to perforation if the magnets attract and stick to one some other through different loops of the intestine.^[12]

Diagnosis [edit]

On x-rays, gas may exist visible in the abdominal cavity. Gas is easily visualized on x-ray while the patient is in an upright position. The perforation can often exist visualised using computed tomography. White blood cells are often elevated.

Treatment [edit]

Surgical intervention is virtually always required in the form of exploratory laparotomy and closure of perforation with peritoneal wash. Occasionally they may exist managed laparoscopically.^[thirteen] A Graham patch may be used for duodenal perforations.

Conservative treatment including intravenous fluids, antibiotics, nasogastric aspiration and bowel rest is indicated only if the person is nontoxic and clinically stable.^{[ citation needed ]}

References [edit]

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^ Ansari, Parswa. "Astute Perforation". Merck Manuals. Archived from the original on July 10, 2016. Retrieved June 30, 2016.
^ Byers, Peter H. (21 February 2019). Vascular Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. University of Washington, Seattle. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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^ R I Russell (2001). "Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and gastrointestinal damage—problems and solutions". Postgrad Med J. 77 (904): 82–88. doi:10.1136/pmj.77.904.82. PMC1741894. PMID 11161072.
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^ Ramasamy, Kovil; Gumaste, Vivek 5. (2003). "Corrosive Ingestion in Adults". Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology. 37 (2): 119–124. doi:10.1097/00004836-200308000-00005. PMID 12869880.
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