Definition
Spleen pain is typically felt in the left side of the abdomen, between the back of the stomach body and the front face of the left kidney.
In most cases, this symptom is due to physical effort . People who do sports without being trained, in fact, can easily complain of a pang at the level of the spleen. In these cases, the pain is not accompanied by other physical disorders or diseases, it disappears with rest and, if you train progressively, it becomes rarer.
If it happens to rest, however, splenic pain must always induce you to undergo a specialist examination to identify any inflammation or other abnormalities affecting the organ. First, the spleen is an organ that can be damaged due to severe abdominal trauma .
In different forms of anemia, then, the spleen is subject to hyperactivity and can be swollen and painful. In anemic people, in fact, red blood cells have a much shorter life than what normally happens (60-90 days instead of 120).
Spleen pain in resting conditions is one of the typical symptoms of mononucleosis, a viral infection that causes fever, joint pain, headache and swollen lymph glands.
Spleen pain can also appear in the presence of infectious endocarditis, liver disease (including viral hepatitis and cirrhosis) and spleen tumors.
Possible Causes * of Pain in the Spleen
- Anemia
- Liver Cirrhosis
- Infective endocarditis
- Hepatitis A
- Hepatitis B
- Hepatitis C
- Mononucleosis
- Scleroderma
- Toxoplasmosis
