Chronic and acute gastritis in a child: signs and symptoms

Every year, people suffering from diseases of the digestive system, is becoming more and more. In addition, "adult" diseases are increasingly manifested in young children. This fact is due to the fact that in the race for new taste sensations, food producers began to add harmful chemical additives to the products that negatively affect the gastric mucosa. That is why the gastritis of a child today is several times more common than it was a couple of decades ago.

The emergence of such a disease requires parents to pay special attention, because in the absence of proper treatment at first the condition of the baby can deteriorate right before your eyes.

Gastritis in a child can occur in both acute and chronic forms. Depending on this, the pediatrician chooses a further course of treatment, which is aimed at reducing inflammation and irritation of the mucous membrane.

Symptoms of gastritis in children in acute form differ significantly from those observed with chronic disease. With a timely appeal to a pediatrician who is required to prescribe adequate treatment, the likelihood of a full and rapid recovery is very high.

Unfortunately, chronic gastritis in a child is cured even by the most effective means, almost never fails. But in order to avoid a period of exacerbation, you must adhere to a full and healthy diet, as well as regularly observed in the pediatrician.

Depending on the severity of the disease, the depth of the mucous membrane and the degree of pain are significantly different. In addition, if a long time does not treat this disease, irritation of the walls of the digestive organ is joined and more intense symptoms of gastritis in children:

• Frequent nausea (even if the child did not take fatty foods);
• Vomiting;
• General malaise (weakness, drowsiness, lethargy);
• Dry mouth, and sometimes increased salivation ;
• Low blood pressure;
• Slightly elevated body temperature;
• rapid pulse;
• Whitish gray coating on the tongue.

Often, when these symptoms occur, parents do not even suspect that their child has an exacerbation of gastritis. Deciding that the baby has caught a cold or was poisoned by poor-quality food, many people independently take a number of measures to eliminate these symptoms.

That is why every parent should know that acute gastritis in a child is necessarily accompanied by pain in the abdominal area, as well as the characteristic weight and swelling after eating.

If these symptoms occur, you should immediately consult a pediatrician, since complications of superficial gastric disease can affect the functioning of the cardiovascular system. In addition, untimely cured erosive gastritis in the future can cause perforation of the walls of the stomach and even internal bleeding.