Among the many forms of a disease such as gastritis, a great deal of attention deserves a mixed one. This pathology of the stomach is represented by several types of disease developing against the background of superficial gastritis, to which hemorrhagic, erosive and hypertrophic are usually added.
The most common cause of this type of disease is infection with the Helicobacter pylori bacterium, which enters the body or when it comes into contact with an infected person( kisses), or when eating foods from a person who is not thoroughly washed after the sickness with this disease. By air, as well as through handshakes can not be infected with it.
To develop mixed gastritis always begins with an inflammatory process that covers the superficial epithelial layer, and sometimes the gastric mucosa of the digestive organ. But because the symptoms of the initial stage are mild, they usually do not pay much attention, and do not resort to the necessary treatment.
In this case, the surface gastritis begins to progress, the activity of the bacteria rises, they destroy the protective gastric mucus and small erosion appears in these areas. And if this situation is aggravated by bad habits, wrong way of life and nutrition, the disease will become chronic. So there is a mixed version of the disease.
Symptoms accompanying mixed surface gastritis
Since the disease contains several types of abnormalities of the digestive organ, it has different manifestations, depending on which of them prevails in this case. But there are common for all kinds of symptoms. They usually have the following symptoms:
- Frequent discomfort and sharp pains in the area of the epigastric region, which is located between the ribs, giving mostly to the left hypochondrium or back;
- Feeling of "sucking in the pitcher";
- Sensation of overcrowding of the stomach even with a small amount of eaten;
- Nausea, almost always ending with vomiting, in which there are cases of bloody inclusions;
- Frequent heartburn, sour eructations and a sharp decrease in appetite.
Clinical picture of superficial mixed gastritis
The development of a clinic for this type of disease is very difficult to predict, because it depends on many factors. But it is reliably known that with the progression of the disease the patient's condition becomes worse.
With superficial mixed gastritis, hypo- or hyperacid conditions are observed, expressed in increased or decreased acidity of the gastric juice. But there are also cases when acidity remains normal. Mixed superficial gastritis in the clinical picture is similar to the chronic form of the disease and has the following symptoms:
- Mucous membrane has puffiness of medium degree;
- Hyperemia of a focal character;
- Increases the formation of mucus, and the sheath itself becomes very vulnerable.
When diagnosing superficial mixed gastritis, it is mandatory to perform FGD, which is necessary in order to establish changes in the relief of the mucosa of the diseased organ, and to identify the absence of ulcers or oncology that usually arise from this disease, and to establish the most accurate diagnosis.
After the doctor has confirmed the forms of the disease, present in this case, he develops a technique of treatment, which is mandatory for complex gastrointestinal diseases.
Also, in order to speed up the healing process, the patient should completely abandon the addictions, such as alcohol abuse, smoking, excessive use of drugs and a propensity for eating dry. Only in this case it is possible to cure mixed superficial gastritis completely.