Gastrointestinal Diseases
Dyspepsia – Difficult Digestion (III)
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The diagnosis of functional dyspepsia is a diagnosis of exclusion, namely, that we must eliminate other possible causes. Although organic diseases (ulcer, gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux …) that can motivate dyspepsia are many, you could make a reliable diagnosis by a good history and further confirmation by radiological or endoscopic.
The diagnosis, there is the difficulty of arranging a treatment for a condition which causes are unknown. Should be clear that many patients do not need any drug treatment and there is no specific therapy for this disease. This reality is not assumed by many dyspeptic who think “there must be something.” Read the rest of this entry »
Dyspepsia – Difficult Digestion (II)
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The causes of functional dyspepsia are not well identified and are thought to be several mechanisms:
Gastrointestinal motility disorders. Believed to be a relevant factor in half of cases of dyspepsia. There is a disorder of peristalsis, or there is a slow gastric emptying.
Impaired gastric secretion.
Psychosomatic disorders. It has shown a relationship between stress and exacerbation of symptoms. It is believed that the increase in catecholamines and endogenous opioids, beta-endorphin, which occurs in situations of stress, strain and stress, inhibits gastrointestinal motility.
It is also envisaged in the Helicobacter pylori bacterium that causes gastric ulcers and gastritis, but although in some dyspeptic was detected this bacterium in their stomach, their eradication has not been a significant improvement in symptoms.
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Dyspepsia – Difficult Digestion (I)
Dyspepsia, a term used by Greeks and Romans to refer to a “bad digestion”, identifies a series of aches and pains in the abdominal area similar to indigestion.
There may be an occasional and isolated, but sometimes extended over time, persists, and occurs frequently, although not a serious health problem, it does alter our quality of life, our sense of wellbeing.
From a medical standpoint, the precise definition of its causes represents a major difficulty for a condition that, according to various epidemiological studies, affects about 20% of the population in Western countries, especially after 40 years and with a similar distribution between men and women. Read the rest of this entry »
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Causes of Diarrhea Diseases
This condition can be a symptom of injury, illness, allergies (fructose, lactose), eating fatty foods, spicy or Bersant exaggeration and excess vitamin C and usually accompanied by abdominal pain and often nausea and vomiting. A number of other conditions, but not all symptoms of diarrhea, and the official medical definition of diarrhea is stool exceeding 200 grams per day.
This occurs when the fluid is absorbed by the insufficiency of the colon. Under the digestasi process, either because the input fluids, food is mixed with large amounts of water. Therefore, the liquid food is digested before it reaches the large intestine. The large intestine absorbs water, with other materials such as semi-solid waste. If a lesion of the colon and inflammation, or “burning” is not in absorption, and the result is a watery stool.
Diarrhea caused by some viral infections, but often by bacterial toxins. In terms of life with clean and sufficient food and water available to patients in good health, as a rule of common viral infections, again in a few days and a maximum of one week. For people who are sick or suffering from malnutrition, severe diarrhea can cause dehydration and can be fatal if not treated.
Diarrhea is a symptom of serious diseases such as dysentery, cholera, botulism, and can also be indicative of a chronic disease like Crohn’s disease. Though appendicitis patients do not generally have diarrhea, diarrhea was aware of the symptoms of appendicitis.
Diarrhea can be caused by excessive alcohol consumption, which are caused not enough to eat, especially in someone.
Symptoms
The symptoms are constant normally found in the intestines, with nausea and vomiting. But there can be other symptoms that also in the back and belly rings wound.
Treatment
The treatment of diarrhea patients by consuming adequate amounts of water to replace lost, preferably mixed with electrolytes to provide the necessary salt and some nutrients. For many, no more treatment and medication specifically required.
Diarrhea is usually only under medical supervision is necessary:
- Diarrhea in Children
- Medium or severe diarrhea in children
- Diarrhea mixed with blood.
- Diarrhea that lasts more than 2 weeks.
- Diarrhea is common with other diseases such as abdominal pain, fever, weight loss, and others.
- Diarrhea in travelers (possibly exotic infections such as parasites)
- Diarrhea in institutions such as hospitals, day care, mental health institutions.
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Stomach Disease
The stomach is the digestive tract, which grows more than it is in the stomach and left some hipokhondriak and navel can. Pylori from the stomach of the summit, the fundus, the main trunk and a horizontal bottom, the antrum. If the food in the stomach, the stomach to form concentric circles, in the corpus and depth gastrikus. The food scares of recent times closer to the hole in the esophagus and the longest of food near the stomach wall.
Glands in the lining of the stomach, it is important digestive fluid, blood from the stomach. These lymph nodes colorless liquid acid, which contains 0.4% Kiora acid (HCI), all foods kept to himself and worked as an antiseptic and disinfectant, the producers of the agency and provide protein. SAP certain digestive enzymes in the stomach.
The function of the stomach, three, namely:
(1) food preservation in a large number at the end of the digestive Shallum accommodate;
(2) mixing the food with gastric resin form semi-solid mixture called Kimus;
(3) Gradually remove the food from the stomach into the small intestine at the proper speed for the digestion and absorption in the small intestine.
Inflammatory disease of the stomach ulcer or are often called, usually occurs when an irregular meals and the type and quality of food are not as good. Inflammation of the lining of the stomach in the form of irritation or infection of the lining of the stomach to create a swelling, bleeding red and terparut. Causes irritation of the stomach are indosin alcohol, drugs and high-dose aspirin, caffeine, corticosteroids, antimetabolites, and Butazolidin. Read the rest of this entry »
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