WHAT CAUSES ABDOMINAL PAIN AND CHILLS?
Together, chills and abdominal pain may be the result of a number of infectious conditions, both bacterial and viral.
Conditions associated with abdominal pain and chills include:
- common cold
- appendicitis
- bacterial or viral gastroenteritis
- infectious mononucleosis
- malaria
- meningitis
- pneumonia
- urinary tract infection
- salmonella food poisoning
- prostatitis
- epididymitis
- diverticulitis
- pelvic inflammatory disease
- urethritis
- acute pancreatitis
- kidney stone
- scarlet fever
- peritonitis
- shingles
- yellow fever
- pyelonephritis
- Weil’s disease, or leptospirosis
- typhus
- cystic fibrosis
- tuberculosis
- leukemia
- brucellosis
- plague
- Addisonian crisis
- gallbladder inflammation, or cholescystitis
- pancreatitis
In rare instances, abdominal pain and chills are the result of a heart attack. In this case, other symptoms are usually present.
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