Every year more and more people suffer from diseases of the digestive system. 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 manufacturers began to add harmful chemical additives to their products, which negatively affect the gastric mucosa. That is why gastritis in a child today is several times more common than it was a couple of decades ago.
The occurrence of such a disease requires special attention from parents, because in the absence of proper treatment at first, the baby's condition may worsen right before our eyes.
Gastritis in a child can occur both in acute and chronic form. Depending on this, the pediatrician chooses a further course of treatment, which is aimed at reducing inflammation and irritation of the mucous membrane.
Signs of gastritis inchildren, occurring in an acute form, differ significantly from the symptoms observed in a chronic disease. With a timely appeal to the pediatrician, who is obliged to prescribe adequate treatment, the likelihood of a complete and quick recovery is very high.
Unfortunately, chronic gastritis in a child can almost never be cured even by the most effective means. But in order to avoid a period of exacerbation, it is necessary to adhere to a complete and he althy diet, as well as to be regularly observed by a pediatrician.
Depending on the severity of the disease, the depth of mucosal damage and the severity of pain vary significantly. In addition, if this disease is not treated for a long time, more intense symptoms of gastritis in children join the irritation of the walls of the digestive organ:
- frequent nausea (even if the child did not take fatty foods);
- vomit;
- general malaise (weakness, drowsiness, lethargy);
- dry mouth and sometimes increased salivation;
- low blood pressure;
- slightly elevated body temperature;
- rapid heart rate;
- whitish-gray coating on the tongue.
Often, when the described symptoms occur, parents do not even suspect that their child has an exacerbation of gastritis. Having decided that the baby caught a cold or was poisoned by poor-quality food, many people independently take a number of measures toelimination of these symptoms.
That is why every parent should know that exacerbated gastritis in a child is necessarily accompanied by pain in the abdomen, as well as the heaviness and swelling characteristic of this disease after eating.
If these symptoms occur, you should immediately consult a pediatrician, as complications from superficial stomach 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.
