Superficial gastritis has recently become one of the most common gastric pathologies among all layers of the population. The incidence rate of this unpleasant disease increases with age, although cases of mucous membrane damage are very frequent among children.
To determine the exact form of its course and the depth of the mucosal lesion, and also to prescribe the appropriate treatment, only a specialist can use it with the help of a special diagnostic study. But there are several common symptoms that should make a person urgently beat the alarm and go to the gastroenterologist.
After all, despite the fact that superficial gastritis is considered to be a mild illness, if you ignore its symptoms and do not begin timely and correct treatment, it can give very serious complications, up to malignant tumors of the gastrointestinal tract.
Signs of superficial gastritis
Almost 60% of the population often have strong, paroxysmal pains in the epigastric region, usually worse on an empty stomach. And with it, there may be a feeling of discomfort in the stomach.
As soon as these symptoms appear, you should immediately contact your doctor. In fact they testify to the beginning of the most insidious disease - a superficial gastritis. In addition to these sensations, superficial gastritis is accompanied by the following symptoms:
- Immediately after eating, it starts to get nauseated, and an unpleasant feeling of heartburn;
- There is also an eructation, which has an acidic odor;
- Frequent vomiting is not only the contents of the stomach, but also mucus with bile, having a bitter taste;
- Increased salivation, which is a reaction of the body to disorders in work, organs, and after attacks of vomiting, severe dryness in the mouth, indicating dehydration, are also symptoms of this disease;
- From the whole body, general weakness, tachycardia, low blood pressure and fever, intense sweating, headaches.
These symptoms are characteristic of many forms of the disease. Therefore, the diagnosis can only be clarified by a gastroenterologist. After going to the doctor and conducting the diagnosis, the surface gastritis will show the following symptoms:
- Moderate puffiness of the mucosa, the color of which varies from moderately red to cherry;
- With a strong increase, you can see that because of its swelling, the gastric fields flatten, and the grooves become small and narrow, filled with an inflammatory secret.
External endoscopic manifestations of superficial gastritis are most noticeable in the antrum and the body of the stomach.
Should I start treatment if symptoms appear?
Although many believe that superficial gastritis, especially when the symptoms are mildly expressed, is completely safe, treatment should begin immediately.
Symptoms of superficial gastritis, despite their external harmlessness, mean that significant changes have begun in the stomach, its mucosa is significantly irritated and inadequately responds to various external factors and many foods. And this gives the person considerable inconvenience.
Timely detection and treatment of this not dangerous, but capable of causing big problems, not only allows to save the patient from all interfering to lead a normal life of the symptoms, but also to stop this insidious disease at the earliest stage, until she took the chronic form, which is the first step to an ulcerstomach and other, no less terrible diseases of the digestive tract.