Differential diagnosis
Common
- Viral gastroenteritis
- Irritable bowel syndrome
- Urinary tract infection (child)
- Constipation
- Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
Infrequent
- Renal stones
- Acute pyelonephritis
- Fibroid degeneration
- Ruptured ovarian cysts
- Campylobacter infection
- Small bowel bacterial overgrowth syndrome
- Diabetic ketoacidosis
- Clostridioides difficile diarrhoea
- Non-typhoidal Salmonella
- Acute mesenteric ischaemia
- Pre-eclampsia
- Small bowel obstruction
- Coeliac disease
- Ischaemic colitis
- Colorectal cancer
- Giardiasis
- Strangulated inguinal hernia
- Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm
- Meckel's diverticulum
- Pancreatic cancer
- Henoch-Schonlein purpura
- Infectious mononucleosis
- Crohn's disease
- Ovarian cancer
- Microscopic colitis
- Shigellosis
- Chronic pancreatitis
- Large bowel obstruction
- Ulcerative colitis
- Femoral hernia
- Intussusception
Rare
- Chronic mesenteric ischaemia
- Polyarteritis nodosa
- Type 1 diabetes mellitus
- Haemolytic uraemic syndrome
- Hepatitis A
- Familial Mediterranean Fever
- Enteric fever (typhoid/paratyphoid)
- Acute fatty liver of pregnancy
- A
Specific differential diagnosis
TYPES
ColicEpigastric pain
LLQ pain
Loin pain
LUQ pain
Pelvic pain
RLQ pain
RUQ pain