Stomach ulcer and duodenum: Can I cure?

How does peptic ulcer and duodenal ulcer occur?

Excessively accumulated gastric juice, instead of digesting food, aggressively affects the mucous membrane.

If this occurs for a long time, the gradually formed ulcer appears densified edges, and it does not heal. Penetrating into the depth of the mucous membrane, the ulcer "eats" its tissue layer by layer, creating a traumatic hole. The masses that were inside the stomach or intestine poured into the abdominal cavity. This is how the perforation occurs.

Small ulcers are able to heal during treatment. But if the ulcer was extensive or deep, a scar from the degenerated tissue would remain in its place, and this is dangerous because of a possible tumor.

Among the causes of peptic ulcer disease - heredity, the influence of congenital factors, poor nutrition. One cigarette on an empty stomach mucous membrane causes more harm than continuous smoking on a full stomach.

Ulcer arises against a background of nervous and mental factors: overwork, bad sleep, heavy experiences.

Without complications, it lasts for many years, ceasing and flaring up again. Such an undulating course produces, most often, a duodenal ulcer.

Patients with ulcers should be constantly monitored by a doctor. During the remission (periods of calm), it is strictly necessary to maintain a sparing diet. Mucous membranes of the intestine and stomach should not receive mechanical and chemical stimulation.

Prohibited: coarse vegetable fiber - for example, flour with coarse grits made from it, black bread; Products of wiry meat and it itself; All kinds of cucumbers, radishes, radishes, mushrooms, unripe sour apples, pears, fried foods, smoked products, spices.

Recommended: all kinds of non-acidic dairy products, vegetable purees, jelly, porridge.

Pain in chronic peptic ulcer is not strong enough to require medication. Most often, pain occurs within one to two hours after eating. In the left hypochondrium they are burning or drilling and intensify with physical exertion.

The duodenum in the ulcer gives a "hungry pain" that disappears after eating, even if the food was very small.

Patients with ulcers after two or three hours after meals are often suffering from heartburn, acidic eructations, nausea and vomiting - and vomiting brings relief. If peptic ulcer has corroded the network of blood vessels, observe vomiting with blood.

Stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer is not life threatening if it is not complicated. But exacerbations can be expected at any time.

The main complications of ulcers:

• Cases of inflammation of the peritoneum;
• The phenomena of gastric or intestinal bleeding;
• Perforated ulcer;
• Narrow (narrowed) pylorus of the stomach ;
• Cases of cancerous degeneration of the ulcer.

Signs of a complicated ulcer:

• Pain right under the rib;
• Lack of appetite;
• The phenomena of heartburn and eructation;
• The phenomenon of nausea and constipation;
• Refusal to eat due to pain (fear of pain).

When these signs have appeared, a perforated ulcer can come at once, without new symptoms.

Diagnosis of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum with the use of modern apparatus of ultrasound and endoscopy (internal examination), and also by testing in the laboratory.

If the perforation happens, the patient feels a sharp, knife-like blow ("dagger") pain, which is concentrated at the top of the abdomen. There is pallor, cold sweat. The patient instinctively wants to fall with legs clamped to the abdomen. Then the pain grasps the entire abdomen, the temperature rises. Urgent hospitalization is needed. Before the ambulance arrives, the patient should not leave the bed. Lie with a cold compress on your stomach.

Another dangerous complication, which gives peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum - cases of gastric and intestinal bleeding.

There is vomiting, the masses of which resemble coffee grounds. The chair becomes like a tar.

In this condition, the patient may die.

He must be immediately put in bed. The area to the left under the pitcher is covered with a cold compress. Immediately, call the ambulance in an emergency.

Treatment of stomach and duodenal ulcers is well developed in modern medicine. There is a large number of effective medicines. It is very important preventive observation and taking medications during remissions. So the peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum proceeds: treatment of it is much more difficult than a warning.

In case the drugs do not help, as well as with exacerbations, surgical intervention is indicated. In modern surgery, operations to remove the ulcer pass safely and bring a minimum of harm.

It is important to know that an ulcer is a psychosomatic disease. The factor of suggestion and autosuggestion in this disease plays an important role. As the treatment progresses, the patient needs constant psychological support, which should be provided by relatives and friends.

Careful adherence to the doctor's instructions, dieting, careful medication and belief in recovery will ensure success.

But if at least one of these factors is left without attention, it will be much more difficult to overcome the disease.