Inflammation of the mucous membrane can be not only in the stomach itself, but also in other digestive organs. This is evidenced by statistics, which fixes the increase in the number of cases of morbidity. Sex and age do not play a special role here. What are we talking about? Gastritis of the esophagus is also a serious disease that has a number of symptoms and has a wide variety of forms and species that require careful treatment and competent treatment.
Gastritis of the esophagus or esophagitis is called the inflammatory process, the localization of which is the mucosa and the walls of the esophagus. This disease is often found not immediately, but when examining a patient with suspicion of gastritis. Here lies his cunning. The onset of an esophagitis occurs without any symptoms, until it is diagnosed, and may have time to cause serious damage to health.
Any disease has a number of reasons, not always depending only on the person. For esophagitis, their set is as follows: throwing gastric contents into the esophagus, irritating its mucous membrane, various infections that occur against the background of immunodeficiency, exposure to chemicals with which a person is constantly in contact with harmful production, alcoholism, improper gastroscopy.
Species and forms of esophagus gastritis
Like many other diseases, gastritis of the esophagus are characterized by two types of flow: acute and chronic. In the first case, it is classified according to the forms:
- edematous;
- erosive;
- catarrhal;
- pseudomembranous;
- phlegmonase;
- exfoliative;
- necrotic;
- hemorrhagic.
Otorhinal and catarrhal forms are considered to be the most common, as they are characterized by pronounced hyperemia and swelling of the mucosa. Erosive - contribute to the transferred infectious diseases or irritants. If a person becomes infected with scarlet fever or diphtheria, then a pseudomembranous or exfoliant form of esophagitis may subsequently become a complication. Hemorrhagic - characterized by small vascular ruptures that occur at the time of an active course of an infectious disease. Necrotic is a consequence of candidiasis, agranulocytosis and other diseases that somehow damage the mucosa of this organ. Phlegmonous - can develop when a foreign body enters the esophagus with an infection. In the second case, there is an untreated acute esophagitis or a neglected form of which the patient did not know.
Chronic gastritis of the esophagus also occurs in several forms:
- professional;
- is allergic;
- is stagnant;
- is an alimentary;
- is dismetabolic.
The mechanism of occurrence of the first two forms of gastritis of the esophagus is understandable intuitively, since their name indicates the cause that caused this particular form of flow. For stagnant - characterized by a long stay of leftovers of food in the body, which cause inflammation. Dysmetabolic form is one of the consequences of a lack of vitamins and oxygen starvation of body tissues. Alimentary esophagitis is a direct indicator of an incorrect lifestyle: the rapid absorption of cold or hot food. Fans of strong alcohol also suffer from it.
Symptoms of gastritis of the esophagus
As a rule, at the very beginning the disease rarely produces itself, and becomes noticeable due to a number of signs that already appear in chronic form. Then the patients begin to complain about such symptoms of gastritis of the esophagus: pain in the chest( it can be felt like a heart, cervical), not dependent on eating and physical activity, problematic ingestion of food, sensation of a lump in the throat, increased salivation, belchingoften accompanied by the smell of consumed food, a feeling of nausea. Talk about vomiting is necessary for acute or neglected flow.
How to treat? First of all, the cause of the disease is due to elimination. The remaining measures are symptomatic - antacids and physiotherapy procedures. Any inflammation can not be started, as this will affect the duration and intensity of treatment.