Health education for patients with upper gastrointestinal bleeding mainly includes health guidance for the original cause, as follows:
1. For the causative factors; there are many causes of gastrointestinal bleeding, patients and their families should be helped to master the knowledge about self-care to reduce the risk of bleeding again. For example, patients taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs should stop or change the use of other drugs under the guidance of the doctor.
2. Daily education: pay attention to dietary hygiene and regularity of diet, eat nutritious and easy-to-digest food; avoid over-starvation or overeating; avoid rough and stimulating food or food and drinks that are too cold, too hot or produce much gas; quit smoking and drinking. Maintain a regular life, combine work and rest, maintain optimism, and ensure physical and mental rest. Avoid long-term mental stress and overwork.
3. Regular checkup: when nausea, sweating, dizziness, panic, black feces and other aura of bleeding occur, you should immediately lie down to rest, keep quiet, reduce physical activity, take the side position when vomiting to avoid aspiration, and immediately send to the hospital for treatment. Chronic patients should be followed up in outpatient clinic regularly. Patients are advised to have regular medical checkups and go to the hospital promptly if they have any discomfort such as vomiting blood, black stool, dizziness, or fatigue.