Chronic gastritis is often mistakenly called dyspepsia. What is it? Disease in which a person is constantly accompanied by discomfort in the stomach. Often it is not associated with meals, sometimes it is combined with nausea, heaviness and sensation Hunger. What are the causes of the disease and how to cope with it?
Different forms of dyspepsia
Like other diseases, this can take several forms. The syndrome of dyspepsia includes such symptoms as rapid satiety with heaviness in the stomach, discomfort in the stomach, nausea, pain from hunger. The same signs are also manifested in peptic ulcer, with gallstones, with pancreatitis or cholecystitis, with gastroesophageal reflux disease. Therefore, if they are available, it is important to apply for detailed diagnosis to a specialist. Ultrasound of the abdominal cavity or esophagogastroduodenoscopy will help to establish the exact cause that caused discomfort. If any of the diseases listed above are found, the form is considered organic. If the disease is primary and developed independently, it is called functional or chronic dyspepsia. This state most often occurs gradually on the basis of malnutrition and eventually becomes permanent.
Why dyspepsia develops?
What is it - wrong nutrition? How to understand that Diet is not too useful? It's pretty simple. In order to avoid dyspepsia, try not to eat at night, limit the consumption of alcohol and fatty foods, do not eat sandwiches with coffee or tea, do not eat half-finished products and fast food. Some stomachs survive a couple of months of such a menu, someone can manage years. In any case, the result will be the same - you have to think about the visit to the doctor. Sometimes the cause of the ailment can become medications, the impact of a stressful situation, impaired motor activity of the gastrointestinal tract. There is also a bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which also develops dyspepsia. What it is? An infection that affects the stomach and causes various diseases, including gastritis.
How to restore health?
To begin The restoration of the organism is worthwhile with changes in the diet. It should be eaten in small portions about five times a day, completely eliminating fried, fatty, spicy, pastry and sweets, alcoholic beverages and sandwiches. Within a few days the condition will begin to approach the norm. Sometimes it is also necessary to take prokinetics, especially if the patient has dyskinetic functional dyspepsia. What it is? These are drugs that improve gastric motility. If the patient is characterized by hunger pain, antacids are recommended. In each case, the use of drugs with antioxidants from plant components, for example, the Australian drug "Ectis", is recommended. But the basis is precisely compliance with the regime, taking drugs without changes in the diet will not lead to positive results. Only healthy food, which has become the norm, can finally restore the state of the stomach and defeat dyspepsia.