Stomach Ulcer - Symptoms

A peptic ulcer is a chronic disease of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract, in which inflammations and wounds occur on the mucous membranes. Symptoms of peptic ulcer disease do not always manifest properly. But listening to your body, the problem can be identified and cured in a timely manner.

The main signs of peptic ulcer disease

Causes of gastric ulcers can be different factors:

• frequent stress and overstrain;
• some medicines;
• bad habits;
• adverse environmental conditions;
• chronic gastritis ;
• infection (in particular, Helicobacter pylori bacteria);
• malnutrition and many others.

In each organism the symptoms of peptic ulcer of the stomach manifest themselves in different ways. The most common signs of the disease are:

• pains (most often these are so-called hungry pains arising between meals and disappearing soon after eating);
• nausea;
• vomiting;
• frequent eructations;
• deterioration of appetite;
• severe weight loss;
• heartburn;
• dyspepsia;
• weakness.

The symptoms are wavy. That is, during an exacerbation the patient feels discomfort, but after its completion the body returns to normal life, and the disease is safely forgotten.

Complications of gastric ulcer

You can not neglect peptic ulcer. Although this problem is not a serious threat to life, it is necessary to treat it in order to avoid unpleasant consequences and complications:

1. Perforation of an ulcer - the formation of a hole in the wall of the affected organ. This complication is considered one of the most dangerous. Through the opening hole food can enter the abdominal cavity, which in turn is fraught with infection.
2. Penetration of the ulcer is a complication similar to perforation. With penetration in the stomach, a hole may also appear, but it only leads to the other abdominal cavity and not to the abdominal cavity.
3. Sometimes ulcers develop into malignant tumors. Fortunately, this complication is rare.
4. Another complication is bleeding .

Prevention of peptic ulcer disease

In fact, preventing an ulcer is much easier than curing. Preventive measures are simple:

1. You should give up bad habits.
2. If possible, protect yourself from nervous stress and stress.
3. It will not hurt to revise the diet: to exclude hot and too spicy food, add more natural products.