Q. I have stomach pain and swollen ankles. What could be the problem?

Hi, 

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• The stomach ache may be due to peptic ulcer.

• If the pain increases after consuming food, then the location of ulcer is in the stomach.

• Hence, such patients hesitate to eat food despite hunger.

• On the other hand, if the abdominal pain is seen before food and the pain subsides after food, then the ulcer is located in the duodenum.

• These patients eat more not to get pain and sometimes put on weight. 

• In both the conditions, patients suffer from flatulence (gas in stomach) and frequent defecation.

• Avoid spicy, oily (for example: fried rice), hard food (for example: roti), non-vegetarian food and potatoes.

• Some patients do not have pain before food.

• They have urgency to defecate immediately after food. This is known as Irritable Bowel Syndrome.

• This is due to irregular toilet habits, stress, late night sleep etc.

• The treatment is different from peptic ulcer in this case.

• Yoga is the best to reduce tension and stress.

• Many good herbal drugs are there to empty the stool from intestine every morning. They are called as laxatives. 

• Regarding ankle edema, it is the earliest sign of some future disease, hence this should not be ignored.

• You have to go for a heart check up and kidney function tests. 

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Dr. Arul Amuthan L

Experience: 19 + Yrs

Pharmacology

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