Focal intestinal metaplasia is a more serious pathological change, but the symptoms are not necessarily serious, and some patients may have no discomfort.
1. Pathological changes: intestinal metaplasia is called intestinal epithelial metaplasia, which belongs to precancerous lesions together with atypical hyperplasia. This pathological change may progress to malignant tumor, and there is no clear drug to reverse this pathological change.
2. Symptoms: intestinal epithelial hyperplasia is mostly seen in chronic atrophic gastritis, most of the patients may have belching, acid reflux, gastric distension and other symptoms, and the serious ones may have anemia, emaciation, and inflammation of the tongue, etc. Some patients may have no obvious discomfort symptoms. Some patients may have no obvious discomfort, only a feeling of fullness in the upper abdomen after eating.
Patients with focal intestinal chemosis need to standardize the application of acid-suppressing agents gastric mucosal protective agents, such as omeprazole, bismuth potassium citrate. And they need to perform Helicobacter pylori test, if there is infection, they need to eradicate HP with quadruple drugs, such as omeprazole, bismuth potassium citrate, amoxicillin, clarithromycin, which is helpful to promote the healing of the mucosa and reduce the symptoms of focal intestinal chemosis.
For focal intestinal chemosis, it is recommended that the doctor should make a comprehensive judgment of the condition by combining medical history, symptoms and gastroscopy.