Gastric ulcer: causes, symptoms, treatment, diet and prevention
Gastric ulcer can worsen depending on the season, which indicates that the disease is chronic. Curing an ulcer is very difficult, it takes a lot of time and effort. A person can get rid of painful pain if he follows a strict diet and use medicines, but they are not cheap. Unfortunately, any medicine not only treats, but also causes other diseases due to side effects. Treatment of ulcers is a delicate and complex process, this is what we will talk about below.
The article will consist of the following items:
The article will consist of the following items:
The causes of stomach ulcers
Prevention of stomach ulcers
Causes of stomach ulcer
Disease appearsbecause of the imbalance of protective and harmful factors in the work of the stomach and duodenum, which necessarily leads to exacerbations and worsening of the patient's condition. The main harmful substance that causes ulcer is hydrochloric acid, it is regularly produced in the stomach. Of course, the burning also affects the defeat of the stomach, it is produced in certain amounts in the liver and sent to the stomach and duodenum. Our stomach produces a special mucus that envelops it and stimulates blood circulation and recovery of the outer shell. But the protective layer is not able to withstand other negative factors: eating spicy food, stress and nervous breakdowns, drinking strong coffee, alcoholic beverages, medicines, such as aspirin and analgin. But the disease will appear regardless of your lifestyle and diet, if somehow the stomach gets a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori.
The ulcer can be revealed due to the fact that one of the parents has already had the disease. The chances of having an ulcer are very high, if the relatives still suffer from the disease. But in most cases the disease is not transmitted, only the functions of the stomach are transferred, such as intensive release of hydrochloric acid, weakness of the blood vessels, because they are responsible for supplying mucus to the stomach walls. If a person regularly eats roast and spicy with coffee, while having a genetic predisposition to an ulcer, the disease will appear sooner or later. The defeat of Helicobacter pylori is the most serious problem, because the bacterium increases the release of harmful substances, hydrochloric acid, toxic ammonia and so on. This leads to a painful inflammation of the stomach, but it can be cured faster, you just need to get rid of the bacteria and the ulcer will immediately pass.
Symptoms and signs of stomach ulcers
First of all, a person begins to experience pain in the upper abdomen. There is a pain in the middle of the abdomen, but periodically it departs into the right or left hypochondrium, back or navel area. The place where pain occurs depends on food intake and exacerbation, for example, in the spring and autumn pain may appear in different places. The pain begins to disappear after consuming fatty milk and antacids, and you can also purify the stomach with vomiting, which will also reduce pain. But the pain always differs depending on the area in which it appeared. It can begin to be felt only an hour after eating, then it remains for one and a half or two hours, and after a while disappears completely. If the ulcer is formed in the prepyloric department of the stomach or duodenum, the pains are late, that is, they appear three hours after eating. Sometimes they appear late at night, which necessarily causes insomnia and causes people to wake up and do everything possible to get rid of it, for example, to drink milk in large quantities. On the background of pain, other symptoms appear: heaviness, nausea, eructation, vomiting, overflow or a sensation of bloating. Despite this - a strong appetite remains, but the person deliberately restricts the intake of food.
Now more often you can find an asymptomatic or ulcer with a small number of symptoms, it is often called a "mute" ulcer. In most cases, they are peculiar to people of age, patients with diabetes and people who drink anti-inflammatory and non-steroid drugs. The stomach ulcer without symptoms is susceptible to those who abuse alcohol and smoking. In this case, the disease will not last until a few years, but a person will immediately have very severe pains, possibly an ambulance. If the ulcer is not treated for a long time, then after a while there will be a perforation of the stomach or duodenum, and this will cause profuse bleeding and stenosis. After that, simple drugs will not be enough, a person will be sent to a hospital for consultation with a surgeon, then there will be surgical intervention in the hospital, since this is a very dangerous form of the disease.
During the perforation of the ulcer, the layers of the walls of the stomach or duodenum begin to deform, and their contents pass into the abdominal cavity. The person begins to experience very acute and painful symptoms, as if boiling water was poured into the stomach or a sharp knife hit the stomach, the pain rises from the bottom upwards or vice versa falls from the top down. A person can not turn the body, breathe deeply or cough, there is pain in the diaphragm. The fact is that the pain does not disappear after a while, but on the contrary - it is strengthened and localized not only in the stomach, but throughout the body. Further, there is a development of peritonitis, which is characterized by inflammation of the peritoneum, and this threatens with death. But you can get rid of the disease and complications if you go to the hospital and perform a surgical operation. The earlier this is done, the higher the chances of a complete cure of the disease.
Many people think that bleeding is necessary for a stomach ulcer, but it is not. It can be hidden or abundant, depending on the severity of the disease. If the bleeding is profuse - a person begins to tear with venous( black) blood, his stool is blackened and loses any form, since he is always liquid. Immediately we can identify the symptoms of large blood loss, for example, dizziness, decreased efficiency and activity, asterisks before the eyes, buzzing in the ears, pallor of the skin, increased heart rate and the release of cold sweat. During latent bleeding, so much blood is not released, but in the future it is still found because of anemia( anemia).If a person gradually loses blood in large amounts - you need to send him to the hospital without any objection, so that the surgeon's intervention and treatment with medications are performed. It is advisable to immediately consult a surgeon, as the drugs may not affect the disease. It is difficult to establish an ulcer with hidden blood loss, so first an instrumental and laboratory examination is performed. Against the background of treatment, ulcers also make up for lost blood, change the diet to extract iron and hemoglobin, and so on.
During an exacerbation and deterioration of an ulcer, it can spread to other tissues and organs that are nearby. In most situations, it also passes into the pancreas, a person may experience severe pain in this area, which does not go away after a long time. Pyloroduodenal stenosis is a change in the lower part of the stomach, usually a constriction that can occur after several exacerbations of a stomach ulcer. People note the appearance of bloating, and heaviness in the middle of the stomach after eating, and the eructation after eating is very strange, has an unpleasant and rotten smell. If the stenosis is not deeply deepened, you can conduct conservative therapy, if the disease has already deepened without the help of a surgeon can not do.
People with a stomach ulcer have a disease such as gastritis. Because of the combination of the two diseases, there is a risk of gastric cancer. The fact is that it is almost impossible to detect stomach cancer at the first stages, since it has the same symptoms as simple gastritis or ulcer. To avoid this, you need to regularly check with a gastroenterologist and do a gastroscopy, be sure to check the gastric juice and gastric mucosa on a microscopic examination.
Diet and nutrition for gastric ulcer
There are several main rules to consider when dieting:
You need to eat only useful foods that contain carbohydrates, fats and proteins in sufficient quantities. The food should be vitamins and minerals. Be sure to consume milk and sour milk products, because they soften the gastric juice and envelop the walls of the stomach, but it all depends on your milk tolerance - not everyone can use it during a peptic ulcer. You can add milk to weak coffee and tea, it is not desirable to drink strong coffee. In the products should be vegetable and animal fats, you need to add olive oil to the diet, because it heals the wound. For a day you need to eat no more than 500 grams of carbohydrates, 100 grams of protein, 100 grams of fat. The recommended number of calories per day is 3000, by no means more.
Which products can be consumed:
In no event can you drink strong meat, fish and mushroom decoctions. Do not eat fatty and fried meat, fish, mushrooms, especially you need to exclude from the diet refractory fats, for example, lamb, pork and beef. Heavy fiber from hard vegetables also irritates the stomach. Forget about spicy and salty foods, fried foods too, since it contains carcinogens. You can not smoke and drink alcohol, and do not eat harmful food: carbonated drinks, sausage, canned goods, chocolate pies and much more. Simply put, follow a literate diet and eat only healthy food.
In the day you need to eat a few servings, divided into two or three parts. You should eat 5-6 times a day in small portions. The last time you eat a couple of hours before bedtime, and at night drink a glass of warm milk. Your menu for the day looks something like this:
How to treat a stomach ulcer( drugs)
During a diet, you need to take medication, of course, appoint them yourself without a doctor is not recommended. It is necessary to consult a doctor so that he can select a group of drugs that will help you in your case. A similar treatment is performed to achieve a sustainable result, mainly it acts as follows.
First of all, elimination of the pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori. To do this, select antibiotics, and do it with caution. Which antibiotics can be used:
If the disease does not arise because of the bacteria, you need to reduce the amount of acid in the juice of the stomach, which will lead to relief and relief from heartburn and pain. Assign the following drugs:
Can appoint four or three drugs at once during treatment, it all depends on the severity of the disease, which is determined directly by the treating doctor after a medical examination and examination of gastric juice. In rare cases, when the disease is very acute and medications can cause pain and exacerbation, injections are prescribed. The minimum duration of treatment with injections or drugs in the form of tablets is 2 weeks.
Treatment of gastric ulcers with folk remedies
Of course, traditional medicine will never match the treatment of a doctor, but if you do not want to go to the hospital and want to get rid of the symptoms of the disease hots for a while, it is worth using the treatment methods that we described below.
Pork fat can help in the treatment of the disease, every day eat about 20 grams of natural pork fat just before breakfast. Duration of treatment - 2 months.
Wash the tuber of raw potatoes, peel, and then grate. Next squeeze the juice and add clean water in a ratio of 50/50.Drinking juice should be 30 minutes before meals in the morning in the amount of 200 milliliters. You will feel relief in 3-4 days, drink juice for a month. Do not forget to eat healthy food during treatment.
In a pan with enamel coating, add 350 grams of honey, butter and walnuts. Remove to the oven, heated to 100 degrees, after 20 minutes, remove the mixture and mix well. Eat on a tablespoon in between main meals, but do not drink medicine with tea or water.
You can also drink a liter of clean water every day and start breakfast only three hours later to relax your stomach and clean it of food leftovers. But keep in mind that folk methods are not so effective, so it takes a long time to get any health effect.
Prevention of stomach ulcers
In order for you to never have this disease, you need to lead a healthy lifestyle and maintain a diet.
Stay healthy!