How valiant! Another good one: The hundred folds in a chef's toque (that tall, pleated hat) represent the hundred ways to cook an egg. Bon Appetit 's April issue egg primer provided us an excuse to explore that adage. Where did the saying come from? If it's true, did the French have a certain one hundred egg techniques in mind? (They do love their rules.)
Lower Abdominal Pain. Common causes of lower abdominal pain include appendicitis, irritable bowel syndrome, ovarian cyst, diverticulitis, constipation, cystitis, period pain, endometriosis, pelvic inflammatory disease, bowel obstruction, ectopic pregnancy, miscarriage and inflammatory bowel diseases.
In addition to causing pain in the upper left abdomen, a few causes (bowel cancer, enlargement of the abdominal aorta, food poisoning, infection or kidney stones, trapped gases, etc.) may be the cause of pain in the left lower abdomen.