How does a problem in the body (other than hurting yourself) get translated into pain (for example stomach pain)?
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We have sensory receptors in our skin that sends information to our brain via nerve fibres, this way for example when we touch a hot stove often times as a reflex we pull our hands away from the stove, if we didn’t have these receptors we’d completely burn our hand.
We also have these sensory receptors in our internal organs, I assume the sensory receptors of the vagus nerve are responsible to transit information in regards to digestion (stomach pain).
To explain this like an ELI5 and with my limited knowledge, when we have stomach pain for example, we feel pain when the tissues are damaged or injured. Pain receptors detect the change and send information to the brain.
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