After the patient was diagnosed, during the initial examination, the doctor usually sends the patient to the necessary tests. The list includes: a blood test( for gastritis this is the most current analysis), examination of the gastric mucosa, tests for the detection of bacteria and other tests necessary for gastritis.
Basic, of course, is a general blood test, which determines both the chemical component of the blood, and the clinical parameters for gastritis. Also determine hemoglobin and leukocytes, their levels, and ESR in gastritis. The rate of erythrocyte sedimentation is perhaps the most necessary analysis. It is important because it is the high level of ESR that proves the presence, any pathologies of the body, in particular, the presence of an inflammatory process in the body, which is reflected in the blood, namely, on red, covered calves.
Biochemistry of blood allows you to analyze the activity of internal organs, that is, work capacity, metabolism.
The next thing that draws attention is the presence of the bacterium, namely Helicobacter pylori. He with stomach gastritis is very important, because it is a positive result is a confirmation of the presence of gastritis.
Naturally, this is not the only way to determine bacteria. There is also a method based on the analysis of blood in saliva, or for example, the way in which the respiratory system is examined. Each of these methods is different both informative and value indicators. It should be noted that a greater preference, after all, is given to the detection of bacteria in the gastric mucosa.
No less important is the collection of data from feces and urine. Stool analysis is necessary to determine the presence of bloody discharge. He also surrenders in order to determine the acidity, which causes poor digestion of food.
The analysis of urine with gastritis is rather preventive. It is taken for the most part in order to identify additional problems that may hinder the prompt treatment of the patient, gastritis. In particular, such an issue can be some kind of infection or illness, which your body is struggling with. Struggling means that your immune system will pay more attention to infectious disease than gastritis formations of the gastrointestinal tract.
Certainly, as in the case of blood, the analysis is meant general or special. Special analysis is different in that it has a purely individual meaning. For example, he is appointed if they want to detect the presence of a certain infection.
Biochemical blood test for gastritis is a more complex form of examination of the stomach and other components of the gastrointestinal tract.
This form includes the following components:
- Pepsinogen deficiency I and II.Such an analysis is necessary to identify components in the blood that signal the formation of gastritis at an early stage.
- Reducing the amount of total protein, increasing immune antibodies and increasing one of the bile pigments - bilirubin. These results indicate gastritis, which was caused by a violation of the body's immune system.
- The presence of antibodies that were caused by Helicobacter pylori. Such an indicator is a direct proof that the gastritis was caused by a bacterium, and not by another method.
- Increase in the level of hydrolytic enzymes that decompose starch in the salivary stage: alpha-amylase and alpha-amylase pancreatic. A high level of such enzymes is direct evidence that the patient has similar symptoms with gastritis, but his disease is pancreatitis.
- Increased activity of acidic phosphatase. This indicator is also a sign of pancreatitis, not gastritis. This indicator, as a rule, is included in the general blood test for gastritis.
It should be noted that this is not a complete list of analyzes. There are many ways to determine the presence of gastritis in the blood test. Every year, more and more advanced methods of research are being developed. The delivery of one of the above analysis can not be the basis for setting the final diagnosis. All analyzes are assigned in a complex form, since it is the complete indicators that can determine both the cause of the onset and the way the disease is treated.
A blood test is the most informative way to determine a disease, because the information obtained is the only way to confirm the diagnosis of gastritis.
There is a list of factors that affect the test results. The effect occurs precisely on the mucous membrane of the stomach. An adult man has a very strong layer, which is stronger than human skin in strength.
The influencing factors include: physical fatigue as an organism, yet organs;the transferred diseases, mental fatigue;hereditary features of the body. When donating blood, it is necessary to report possible factors.