Today, one of the most common problems with the gastrointestinal tract. Statistics confirm that more than 75 percent of Russian citizens suffer from a "stomach". At the same time, no more than half of them regard the symptoms of stomach disease as a potential threat to life. Doctors determine this for several reasons: a low standard of living and, as a result, insufficiently good nutrition, an inattentive attitude towards the body, a lack of essential trace elements and vitamins. At the same time, as experts note, quite often minor problems with the stomach and intestinal tract lead to complications and even death.
According to statistics, most people suffer from gastritis and peptic ulcers of the duodenum and stomach. Now a little about these diseases, causes and symptoms.
Ulcers are areas of destroyed mucous membrane. The causes of occurrence are the ingestion of Helicobacter pylori infection into the body. It penetrates most often with a reception in writingunwashed vegetables and fruits. In addition, doctors also identify a secondary cause of the appearance of an ulcer - neuropsychiatric disorders, frequent alcohol consumption, smoking, and taking antibiotics. Signs of stomach ulcers: belching with a sour taste, loss of appetite and weight loss. Rare bloody discharge in the feces is also a sign of peptic ulcer disease, but this symptom appears only during an exacerbation of the disease. Early pain (i.e., arising after an hour or half an hour after eating) speaks of ulcers in the upper sections of the stomach. Late ones (after one and a half to two hours) - about the disease in the lower sections. In other words, the symptoms of stomach disease can vary depending on where the ulcer develops.
Gastritis is an inflamed mucosa. With this stomach disease, the symptoms can be the most familiar to a person, since it is inevitably associated with food poisoning, poisoning with toxins (due to alcohol and not only), microflora disorders (which is associated with taking drugs that affect the microflora of the stomach, as well as taking a certain type of food: fast food, too spicy or too fatty food).
So, the signs of gastritis: after eating, you feel abdominal cramps and nausea, vomiting and diarrhea occur, and the complexion turns pale, a white coating appears on the tongue, dryness or salivation. In this case, the symptoms of stomach disease (with gastritis) vary depending on whether the secretory function is increased or decreased in a person. In the first case, pain appears aftereating, nausea, and belching with a sour taste. In the second, the sour taste in the mouth is replaced by a metallic one, diarrhea, constipation, and nausea are observed.
In addition to the characteristic pains, there are other symptoms of stomach disease that hint to the owner that it is time to pay attention to his body. These are bad breath, frequent burping, bloating, feeling of heaviness, flatulence, excessive salivation, discomfort when swallowing food, frequent diarrhea.
