What's the difference between gastralgia and stomachache?
Gastralgia
Definition:
(n.) Pain in the stomach or epigastrium, as in gastric disorders.
Example Sentences:
(1) Few side-effects were reported, mainly mild gastralgia and nausea, and routine laboratory investigations throughout the long-term study revealed no abnormalities in the blood picture, liver or renal function or coagulation factors.
(2) Other side effects are gastro-intestinal in nature (taste alterations, nausea, vomiting, gastralgia) for 23 p. cent of the patients treated, neuro-sensorial in origin (dizziness, visual disorders, tremors) for 13 p. cent of the patients or of another nature for 5 p. cent of patients.
(3) Nfx and Bz have serious undesirable effects, which have been reported during their clinical use, including anorexia and weight loss, nausea and vomiting, nervous excitation, insomnia, psyche depressions, convulsions, vertigo, headache, sleepiness, myalgias, arthralgias, loss of balance, disorientation, forgetfulness, paresthesias, adynamia, acoustic phenomena, peripheral neuropathies, gastralgia, mucosal edema, hepatic intolerance, skin manifestations, and intolerance to drinking alcohol.
(4) The side-effects reported (headache, dizziness, gastralgia, nausea, pruritus) were minor and non-specific; they accounted for the withdrawal of only 8 patients.
(5) Drop-outs for gastralgia were reported only in 0.53% of the patients.
(6) In addition to the drop-outs, 4 patients complained of gastralgia which disappeared spontaneously in 2 of them or after switching from oral to parenteral administration in the other 2.
(7) Side effects were infrequent (7%) and mild (nausea, gastralgia, oral candidosis), never requiring the interruption of the treatment.
(8) The drug was very well tolerated, as only some cases of dyspepsia, mild gastralgia and nausea were reported in some patients.
(9) Safety was good (placebo: one case of diarrhea; DHEC: one case of gastralgia and dizziness).
(10) (2) Side effect--Side effects were noticed in 4 patients, one was allergic eruption and other 3 were gastralgia.
(11) Two patients were withdrawn from the study during atenolol (gastralgia and heartburn, respectively), and one during metoprolol OROS (gastralgia).
(12) In the second case a Turk fell ill with gastralgia and diarrhea.
(13) Two patients dropped out because of gastralgia and vomiting and one because of pruritus.
(14) Side effects (vomiting, gastralgia and vaginal mycosis) developed in four occasions in each group.
(15) In the first group of patients one case of slight nausea was reported whilst in the second group there were two cases of nausea, one of gastralgia and one of urticaria.
(16) No side effects serious enough to warrant suspension of treatment were observed: the only side effects reported were gastric adverse events (pyrosis, gastralgia) in both groups, having an incidence of 50% (tenoxicam) and 15% (beta-cyclodextrin-piroxicam) respectively.
(17) Both drugs were well tolerated; only 1 patient on pirprofen dropped out because of gastralgia.
(18) Therapeutic efficacy and the good tolerance (one case of gastralgia, two of pyrosis) as well as broad safety margins offered by the drug justify the use of heparan sulphate in all clinical conditions characterized by thrombophilia and local ischemia, above all those which require long-term treatment.
(19) However, nimesulide was better tolerated: only one case of slight gastralgia was recorded in the nimesulide group vs the six cases of side-effects complained of in the aspirin + vitamin C group.
(20) Adverse effects with monotherapy were mainly observed at the beginning of treatment in 3 to 8%: dry mouth, asthenia, gastralgia, palpitations, drowsiness, insomnia; other adverse effects were rare (1 to 2%).
Stomachache
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Parent ratings indicated that only the side effects of decreased appetite, insomnia, stomachaches, and headaches increased significantly in frequency and severity during the two active medication doses as compared with the placebo condition.
(2) More patients, and in most cases nonpatients with IBS, reported poorer general health and headaches, stomachaches, and bowel complaints during childhood.
(3) Though in the meantime 12 years had passed she suffered occasionally from redness of the pharynx and stomachache after ingestion of tea prepared from yarrow and camomile.
(4) Constipation, stomachache, haemorrhoids and spasm of the anal sphincter were typical complaints.
(5) Data are presented on headaches and stomachaches in a sample of 189 3-year-old children obtained as part of community based study.
(6) When the children were 3 years old, interviews with their mothers indicated that 3% had recurrent headaches and 9% had recurrent stomachaches.
(7) Later, breathing through another stomachache, I scanned my notes, rereading scrawled concerns based on various conversations about the potential that everyone we met had some form of extreme PTSD, either from being sick, witnessing a nationwide health crisis, or – as had cropped up in one or two of the conversations – from being sexually assaulted.
(8) On June 12, 1987, the patient again returned to our hospital, complaining of a stomachache.
(9) The "physical" symptoms (stomachache, backache, nausea, fainting) were more often reported during menstruation, whereas the so-called "emotional" symptoms (lethargy, irritability, depression, tension, headache) had a greater prevalence premenstrually.
(10) Prospectively collected data demonstrate that children with recurrent stomachaches did not have bowel difficulties when they were infants.
(11) Children with recurrent headaches or stomachaches were more likely to have behavior problems, as measured by the Behavior Screening Questionnaire, than were children without these symptoms.
(12) Other psychosocial stresses and demographic factors were not associated with stomachaches.
(13) The epidemiology of recurrent stomachache and headache was studied in a community sample of 308 preschool children, most of whom were white.
(14) Other symptoms were abdominal bloating, vomiting urge, vomiting, nausea, stomachache, intestinal cramps, and diarrhea.
(15) Four of five individuals with stomachache had consumed a strongly hypertonic beverage.
(16) The results supported the previous findings of a link between family factors and recurrent stomachache, and a less strong association with headaches.
(17) Most frequently observed side effects in both groups were flushings, stomachache and diarrhea.
(18) A similar measurement model fits mother's and adolescent's tendency to seek medical care for the symptoms of a sore throat, stomachache, and vomiting.
(19) It differed from other gastrointestinal illnesses in that headaches were more likely and stomachaches were less likely to be reported.
(20) Stomachaches and headaches in a community sample of preschool children.