Kinds of Pain in the Lower Abdomen 355
Kind of pain
May be caused by
Pain after childbirth, infection from pieces of afterbirth (placenta)
miscarriage, or
left in the womb, or germs that got into the
abortion
womb during the birth or abortion
Severe pain with
or without fever
(infection)
with or after
another pelvic infection,
having a sexually or a pocket of pus in the
transmitted infection abdomen (pelvic abcess)
or pelvic infection
on one side of the
abdomen, with
or without fever,
nausea, vomiting,
and no appetite
appendicitis or other
intestinal infection
kidney infection
What to do
See
page
See ‘womb infection’, 97
and ‘infection after 255
abortion’.
URGENT! Go to a 274
hospital right away.
URGENT! Go to a
hospital right away.
See ‘bladder and
kidney infections’.
366
Pain with diarrhea
intestinal infection from
bacteria or parasites
See ‘diarrhea’.
298
Severe pain in the
first 3 months of
pregnancy, often
with bleeding that
comes and goes
Severe pain in the
last 3 months of
pregnancy, with or
without bleeding
pregnancy in
the tube
placenta has pulled away
from the wall of the womb
URGENT! Go to a
hospital right away.
73
URGENT! Go to a
hospital right away.
73
Mild, occasional pain probably normal
during pregnancy
Pain with frequent
or painful urination
Pain with blood in
the urine
bladder or kidney
infection
kidney stone
No treatment
needed.
See ‘bladder and
kidney infections’.
See ‘kidney or
bladder stones’.
366
369
Pain with discharge
or light bleeding
from the vagina,
sometimes with
fever
pelvic infection which may be
caused by a sexually transmitted
infection (STI), or by infection after
miscarriage, abortion, or childbirth
See ‘pelvic
inflammatory
disease’,
‘womb infection’,
and ‘infection after
abortion’.
274
97
255
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