All inflammatory pathologies that occur in the stomach have a rather unpleasant symptomatology and are dangerous for the patient to appear on their background of peptic ulcer disease or development of malignant neoplasms. One of these diseases is hemorrhagic gastritis.
The peculiarity of the development of this disease is that its primary occurrence does not occur due to the inflammatory process occurring in the mucosa, but the disturbances of the microcirculatory processes in the vessels located in the submucosal layer.
As a result, hemorrhagic gastritis occurs due to thinning of the walls of the vessels of hemorrhage and the formation in their place of foci of erosions, which at any time begin to bleed.
Only after the onset of these processes inflammation of the mucous membrane begins with all the accompanying symptoms and the formation of poorly healing surface defects( erosions) on it, which, although small in size, are quite numerous.
This kind of disease is called an erosive-hemorrhagic gastritis. Inflammatory pathology of the digestive organ with such defects, formed on the epithelium of the mucosa, does not necessarily exist in symbiosis with hemorrhagic gastritis. It can also be an independent disease.
Causes of hemorrhagic gastritis
Any illness can not arise by itself. For this there must be certain factors. And they are different for chronic and acute forms of the disease. This is also the case with erosive hemorrhagic gastritis.
The cause of the onset of the acute illness is the following:
- Shock condition;
- Liver or kidney failure;
- Burns and injuries of the digestive organ of various severity;
- Sepsis.
But most often hemorrhagic gastritis has a chronic form of percolation. It can be caused by:
- Hitting( intentional or unintentional) in the stomach of aggressive chemicals( strong acids or alkalis);
- Excessive use of certain drugs that have a strong irritant effect on the mucosa;
- Alcohol abuse and other addictions;
- Lifestyle disorders, accompanied by malnutrition;
- Infection with bacteria Helicobacter pylori or Crohn's disease.
When diagnosing hemorrhagic gastritis, accompanied by the formation of sufficiently large foci of erosive damage, predisposing factors are of particular importance. After all, only in the event that they are neutralized, there will be an opportunity for the most effective and qualitative treatment of this insidious disease.
Symptoms associated with hemorrhagic gastritis
The acute form of this disease can be characterized by pronounced clinical manifestations and rapid flow. It manifests itself very quickly, literally a couple of hours after the appearance of mucosal lesions, which contributes to the development of hemorrhagic gastritis, the following indicators:
- In the epigastric region there is a severe pain syndrome;
- Vomiting begins, accompanied by an erasure of gastric masses, which, most likely, will look like a coffee grounds and contain a large number of bloody impurities;
- The patient will experience dizziness, general weakness and low blood pressure in case of acute development of hemorrhagic gastritis.
To determine with the greatest accuracy that a patient develops this disease and prescribe appropriate treatment, the doctor will rely on the following indicators:
- Complaints of the patient, the main place among which is attributed to the signs of internal gastric bleeding( black feces, vomiting bloody contents of brown and strong dizziness), sufficiently severe pain syndrome in the epigastric region and general weakness;
- The primary examination data indicating the presence of the hemorrhagic component in gastritis will be as follows: palpation of the epigastric region causes pain, low blood pressure, the patient has tachycardia, a rapid pulse, the skin is pale and covered with sticky sweat, the tongue is covered with whitish plaque.
With such initial examination data, an urgent diagnostic study( FGDS), a test for Helicobacter pylori infection and an overall blood test for anemia are assigned.
Treatment of acute gastritis with hemorrhagic component
If a patient finds a hemorrhagic gastritis with the present and started to bleed with erosions during the examination, immediate hospitalization follows. All the measures necessary for the treatment of this form of the disease should be carried out only under stationary conditions.
Due to the fact that the etiology of acute hemorrhagic gastritis is diverse, there is no single therapy. The following treatment methods are used to achieve the best results:
- According to indications correction of anemia with the use of blood transfusion;
- Elimination of the cause that caused this type of gastritis;
- Antibacterial therapy to stop the inflammatory process;
- Surgical intervention to stop bleeding from erosive damage if conservative methods do not help.
But not only medical methods should be used to treat hemorrhagic gastritis with erosions present on the gastric mucosa. To eliminate the causes of hemorrhagic gastritis, and accompanying symptoms, a comprehensive approach to treatment should be used, which includes dietotherapy, exercise therapy and traditional medicine.
A great deal with hemorrhagic gastritis is given to a diet that prevents the further development of foci of lesions on the mucosa due to fractionality in the reception of food and the exclusion of food irritating mucous products. Under the ban in the organization of such dietary food is food that has a rough structure, as well as all salted, smoked, fatty and fried.
Among the folk remedies tested for centuries, for self-therapy are most often used products of beekeeping, potato juice and herbal tea, effectively removing the signs of the disease. But do not forget that all folk remedies for hemorrhagic gastritis can be used only after consulting a doctor.