Erosive gastritis is a rather serious and quite common gastrointestinal disease, which is a prerequisite for ulcers and even stomach cancer. Its main difference is ulcerative defects on the mucous membrane. And they can spread from the main digestive organ to the adjacent section of the duodenum.
These lesions deeper than the mucosa do not spread and usually have both a single and focal character. The walls of the vessels in the places of accumulation of such defects are very much thinned and give frequent bleeding, manifested in stool and vomit masses.
Gastritis with erosions in both chronic and acute forms. An accurate diagnosis can be made only after the complete collection of anamnesis and the patient's passing of endoscopic diagnostics( FDDS).
All received data and doctor's appointments are fixed in the medical history, so that it is possible to track any changes in the course of the disease under the influence of certain treatment methods.
Chronic erosive gastritis and its occurrence factors
This disease can manifest itself for several reasons:
- Unsustainable intake of medications, among which a special place is occupied by non-steroid drugs( aspirin, diclofenac, voltaren and others).Their frequent use is due to the fact that they are sold without a prescription and the patient makes appointments to himself, which often exceeds the required dose several times;
- Crohn's disease. It can affect any part of the digestive tract, beginning from the oral cavity and ending with the anal opening. With this disease, intravenous chronic inflammation occurs;
- Alcohol abuse;
- Bacterial and viral infections;
- Dysfunction in diet and eating poor-quality products.
Lesions of the mucosa in the occurrence of chronic erosive gastritis are essentially completely different and depend on the factor that has become a prerequisite for the development of the disease. The widest degree of spread is observed in people who abuse alcohol or drugs. Symptoms of chronic gastritis with erosions:
Most often this disease occurs without any symptoms, or they are so badly expressed that a person simply does not pay attention to them. This especially applies to cases when this pathology occurs due to Crohn's disease, with excessive use of drugs or against the background of a viral infection.
In these cases, patients may sometimes experience discomfort in the stomach, mild nausea, or flatulence. The chair with chronic erosive gastritis also does not always be stable, there are constipation, then diarrhea.
This disease is diagnosed for the most part only when gastrointestinal bleeding begins. In-depth study, diagnosis shows chronic gastritis with severe and bleeding pathologies( erosions) on the walls of the stomach.
What are the symptoms of an exacerbation?
In chronic erosive gastritis, the stages of exacerbation are also possible. They are seasonal in nature and occur mainly in autumn and spring. Patients begin to be strongly disturbed by rather strong pain, which is felt in the epigastric region.
Most of all, it manifests itself after eating, especially when something sour or spicy was used for food. They also suffer frequent heartburn, belching, nausea, vomiting, stool disorders and general discomfort in the stomach area. The cause of exacerbation of chronic erosive gastritis, in addition to mandatory seasonality, are the following factors:
- Dysfunction in diet, which often arise when using unbalanced diets for weight loss;
- Frequent stressful conditions, chronic fatigue, severe working conditions;
- Infection with Helicobacteria;
- Autoimmune mechanisms and concomitant diseases;
- Intestinal infections;
- Poisoning caused by eating poor-quality products.
Symptoms of an exacerbation of an erosive gastritis in the chronic form come in most cases very sharply. But they can also grow gradually, worsening the life of a person with the unpleasant sensations that always accompany this disease.
Treatment of chronic erosive gastritis
If in the case history the patient has written hr.erosive gastritis, should be used to treat not only drug methods. The main method of therapy is diet.
Since this disease is based on lesions in the mucosa of the digestive organ, the patient's nutrition should also be gentle enough to not cause further pathology.
The diet for chronic erosive gastritis provides for light and eroded food that does not cause mechanical damage to the mucosa. It is also necessary to ensure that the products used during exacerbation of the chronic form of the disease are warm. Too hot or cold food can cause thermal damage.