Solar syndrome

Solar syndrome means pain coming from the solar plexus, located in epigastrium or the other regions of the abdomen. Nerve plexus can be irritated by the pathological processes or it can be excessively sensitive without any obvious reason. This condition is not usually mentioned in foreign literature.

Clinical manifestation
In clinical manifestation predominates pain in the medial line of the epigastrium, also occures irradiation on the left and right sides, commonly under the rib cage. The dependence on the food intake is not observed, however the deterioration usually occures in case of the mechanical irritation of the region or intra abdominal pressure increase.

Diagnosing
Diagnosing is rather difficult as no objective finding which matches the syndrome has been described yet. Important are the palpation and the exclusion of all other possible reasons of the problem. Painfulness usually correlates with the course of the abdominal aorta, alternatively its branching on arteriae iliacae, the pain also occures locally, in areas in the course of these blood vessels.

Therapy
Calming down and describing the problem's essence can relieve from the solar syndrome. In such cases we recommend the same regime and lifestyle as for the patients with disoders due to the vegetative lability of the gastrointestinal tract, we try to eliminate the mechanical irritation of the affected region; it's also possible to ordinate the anxiolytics and other local physical methods, however their effect is disputable.