Unfortunately, gastritis is a problem that many people are familiar with. As a rule, this disease is chronic, reminiscent of itself at the most inopportune moment. The cause of relapse can serve as: stress, hormonal changes, physical stress, inaccuracies in nutrition. Therefore it is not surprising that in pregnancy few people manage to avoid exacerbation of gastritis.
So, gastritis in pregnancy: what to do, what to treat and what are the symptoms of the disease, let's dwell on these issues in more detail.
Chronic gastritis in anamnesis - what to do?
If before pregnancy a woman was sick with gastritis, then she needs to be ready, to the fact that the uncomfortable symptoms accompanying the aggravation of the disease will be her faithful companions in pregnancy. Characteristic heaviness in the stomach, pain in the epigastrium, worse after eating, nausea, vomiting, belching - exacerbation of gastritis during pregnancy is still a test for a future mother. Therefore, you can not put up with this state of affairs, in any case. Of course, the treatment of gastritis in pregnancy is difficult, because not all medicines are allowed to the future mother, and even the diagnosis itself-the procedure is unpleasant and burdensome. To diagnose the disease, it is necessary to make a stomach probe and make a gastric juice intake to determine the level of acidity. Most often, this method during pregnancy is used only in those cases when the preliminary treatment, appointed on the basis of symptoms, is ineffective.
Treatment of gastritis in pregnancy
Inflammation of the gastric mucosa is a disease well studied by science. Now it is already reliably known that in most cases the disease is provoked by the ingestion of a pathogenic bacterium Helicobacter pylori. When earlier, everything was explained by the lack of a culture of eating, the consumption of harmful and substandard foods, alcohol, a violation of the biological rhythm of life. Of course, these unfavorable factors can not be discounted. But they only contribute to the emergence of ailment, but in no way are the root cause. Hence the difficulties in treatment. To eliminate Helicobacter pylori infection, antibiotics are needed, the reception of which is highly undesirable during pregnancy. Therefore, future mothers are symptomatically treated:
- Bed rest and split meals .
- To eliminate pain, prescribe antispasmodics: Papaverin or No-Shpu.
- Antacids - medicines that "protect" the gastric mucosa are used with increased acidity. it
there may be medicines called Gastrofarma, Maalox, Gelusillak. - With secretory insufficiency, substitution therapy is carried out with such drugs as Acidin-Pepsin, Abomin or Panzinorm.
- Nausea and vomiting are eliminated with Cerucal or Metoclopramide.
Herbal decoctions and infusions are also effective in the treatment of gastritis in pregnant women. But, as in the case of medicines, drinking them without prescribing a doctor is unsafe for the health of both mother and child.