Does symptoms of hiatal hernia include back pain?
Well, medically hiatal hernia shouldn’t cause any back pain at all but in several cases, hiatal hernia did include back pain. In these cases, the most possible reason of the back pain is when a swollen esophagus – because of the arising of acids – touches the spine. The esophagus is located closely to the spine thus any swelling of the esophagus may cause the esophagus to touch the spine and lead to back pain. This is why some patients of large hiatal hernia might complain about their back pain. These medical symptoms of a hiatal hernia occur because of the reflux of the abdominal content inside the esophagus. In addition, hiatal hernia has parsyntoms that are multifactorial, like esophagitis and peptic ulcer. In worse cases chest infection appears in the hernia. Type of hiatal hernias • Sliding hiatal hernia, where the hernia occurs in the area above the diaphragm Sliding hernia is a very common type of hiatal hernia. It´s not dangerous, but it may cause reflux esophagitis, which was
