Can coeliac disease cause pain in upper right abdomen?
Coeliac disease can cause nonspecific abdominal pain. It can cause pain in the upper right abdomen but there are other pathology that can cause pain there too such as gallstones and hepatitis. It is important to see a doctor to discuss this further. 12. Inflammatory Bowel Disease – Ulcerative colitis, Crohn’s disease. They can present as abdominal pain(ie toxic megacolon, terminal ileitis). The pain in the right iliac fossa may also mimic appendicitis. 13. Infection of the bowel – eg Pseudomembranous colitis(often have diarrhoea, and is associated with prior antibiotics use and often in frail elderly hospitalized patients), Yersinia gastroenteritis(associated with diarrhoea and bleeding). 14. Cancer / Malignancy – This can occur in any abdominal organ. The common ones are colon cancer, stomach cancer, oesophageal cancer, liver cancer and pancreatic cancer. Generally cancer does not cause pain until it is quite advanced. Sometimes though no cause of abdominal pain can be found despite n
