Frog belly

Introduction The frog-like abdomen appears in a large number of patients with ascites or children with loose abdominal muscles. Lying there is like a frog's belly. The water pushes the belly to the sides, or the abdominal muscles are weak and the abdomen is enlarged. Mainly in patients with cirrhosis, hypoproteinemia, and rickets.

Cause

1. The frog-like abdomen appears in a large number of patients with ascites or children with loose abdominal muscles. Lying there is like a frog's belly. The water pushes the belly to the sides, or the abdominal muscles are weak and the abdomen is enlarged. Mainly in patients with cirrhosis, hypoproteinemia, and rickets.

2, another reason is that a person who was very fat before, due to short-term weight loss caused by skin relaxation, but the size of the stomach has not changed much, this will happen, but this phenomenon will slowly disappear.

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Vitamin D deficiency rickets: The muscle ligaments of the children are slack and weak, the abdominal abdomen is enlarged due to the weakness of the abdominal muscles, and the "frog-shaped abdomen" when lying down. Because of the weakness of the limbs, the age of learning to sit, stand, and walk is later. And the legs are weak and easy to fall.

More than 75% of patients with decompensated cirrhosis have ascites, and a large number of ascites may have difficulty breathing, palpitations, lower extremity edema, umbilical hernia, and abdominal bulging in a frog-like abdomen, which brings psychological and physical discomfort to the patient.

Liver ascites is mainly caused by factors such as increased portal pressure and decreased plasma albumin. A large number of ascites may have difficulty breathing, palpitations, lower extremity edema, umbilical hernia, and abdominal bulging in a frog-like abdomen.

Differential diagnosis

Normal newborns have a physiological abdominal bulging, showing a slight "frog-like abdomen." It is normal for a newborn to have a large stomach.

The platy abdomen is acute abdomen, peritonitis, and the whole abdominal muscle is very hard to touch. It is a protective reaction that the splanchnic nerve is stimulated. Therefore, it is named, such as gastric perforation, acute necrotizing pancreatitis, intestinal perforation, acute appendicitis. Gynecological diseases and the like can occur.

Vitamin D deficiency rickets: The muscle ligaments of the children are slack and weak, the abdominal abdomen is enlarged due to the weakness of the abdominal muscles, and the "frog-shaped abdomen" when lying down. Because of the weakness of the limbs, the age of learning to sit, stand, and walk is later. And the legs are weak and easy to fall.

More than 75% of patients with decompensated cirrhosis have ascites, and a large number of ascites may have difficulty breathing, palpitations, lower extremity edema, umbilical hernia, and abdominal bulging in a frog-like abdomen, which brings psychological and physical discomfort to the patient.

Liver ascites is mainly caused by factors such as increased portal pressure and decreased plasma albumin. A large number of ascites may have difficulty breathing, palpitations, lower extremity edema, umbilical hernia, and abdominal bulging in a frog-like abdomen.

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