What’s Causing Your Stomachache?

The symptoms of acid reflux (and its chronic version, GERD) include a cough, and pain and burning in your throat, chest and stomach. Your doctor can help you identify your triggers, which may be certain foods, medicine or even stress, and may recommend self-care and diet changes, as well as prescription medicines.

This chronic inflammatory condition affects the digestive tract, causing abdominal pain, diarrhea (sometimes bloody) and weight loss. Crohn’s can be managed with lifestyle changes and prescription medicines.

Inflammatory bowel disease can cause symptoms such as abdominal cramps, bloody diarrhea, fever and weight loss. Prescription medicines, as well as diet changes and low-impact exercise, may be able to help manage the condition.

IBS affects mostly women, and what causes it is unknown. Symptoms include diarrhea, constipation and abdominal cramps. You may be advised to make diet and lifestyle modifications, and your doctor may prescribe medicine.

Ulcerative colitis is a type of inflammatory bowel disease that causes sores in the colon. Symptoms include abdominal pain and diarrhea (sometimes bloody). Treatment may be a combination of over-the-counter and prescription medicines.