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Do I have a food allergy?
I'm 17 years old and in good health. I'm not overweight, I don't smoke, and I don't drink or do drugs. I try to eat the best I can but I have a horrible sweet tooth. Well anyway, most days, my stomach will hurt at some point during the day. I know part of the problem is stress, but I'm trying to keep that under control. My stomach hurts when I'm hungry. And it hurts after I eat. I always feel bloated after I eat. Sometimes it will feel okay after I eat then hurt a couple hours later or so. Currently I'm in the early stages of a cold, I lost my voice and I'm coughing. But my colds never affect my stomach. But I've had very watery, very yellow looking diarrhea three times in the last couple hours. There's never very much when I go and it doesn't hurt, but whenever I felt the need to pass gas it came on. I haven't eaten the best lately, last night we had pizza and cake. Is it something I ate? Or do you think it's related to my cold? Also, my family swims in this river that has beavers living nearby. My parents have warned me about guardia (sp?), and I don't think I swallowed any of the water. I took a diarrhea pill a while ago, but it didn't seem to work. Please help, I'm tired of living in fear of what my stomach will do!!! Thank you for reading this.
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Your persisting symptoms of abdominal pain and diarrhea could indicate a viral gastroenteritis. The other causes could be jaundice if there is yellowish discoloration of skin, food poisoning if the symptoms occurred shortly after taking food, peptic ulcer disease and sometimes cholecystitis and pancreatitis. Please consult your primary care physician for further evaluation. In the meantime take oral fluids and OTC acetaminophen for the abdominal pain.
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