dyspepsia - difficult digestion

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Causes

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.

Symptoms

They can be very varied and take several clinical forms. The most characteristic feature of dyspepsia is pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen or behind the breastbone. It is a painful sensation which may start in the morning, when the person gets up, and sometimes not relieved by anything.

There is also a feeling of fullness, bloating after meals and also more pronounced with fatty foods. Often presented dyspeptic heartburn, heartburn, and not infrequently they have morning feeling nauseous, sometimes with vomiting without relief. Many suffer loss of appetite.

Dispéticos not all have the same symptoms. In a predominant night pain that is relieved with food intake, which is similar to that of gastric ulcer. In other defendants are bloating, belching and frequent swallowing movements, as if it were a aerophagia. Another group presented retrosternal discomfort, the heat, the sensation of a knot behind the breastbone, a very similar symptoms to gastroesophageal reflux.