It is difficult to diagnose abdominal pains and fever. Abdominal pain and a slight fever, for example could be due to an intestinal infection ... but the main symptom for any intestinal infection – diarrhea - is absent in this case. A four weeks long episode is also not typical for acute intestinal infection. But relief in pain after a bowel movement suggests that the pain originates from the intestines. A intestinal infection id diagnosed via microbiological examination of the stool. Several diagnostic procedures can be very useful:
1. Blood laboratory – blood count, sedimentation, liver status, kidney status, Helicobacter pillory -serology…
2. Occult blood test;
3. Ultrasound scan of the abdomen;
4. Microbiological examination of the stool.
You can consult an internist about your problem.
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