Chronic gastritis is the name of a disease in Western medicine, but in Chinese medicine it belongs to the category of gastric pain, fullness, poor appetite, noisy, belching, nausea, vomiting, and acidity. Chronic gastritis is a chronic inflammatory disease caused by damage to the gastric mucosa from a variety of different causes. The main feature of chronic gastritis is that it is sometimes good and sometimes bad, recurrent and difficult to heal.
What are the factors that contribute to the formation of chronic gastritis?
Chinese medicine.
1, dietary factors: dietary indiscipline, overeating, like to eat spicy, tobacco and alcohol, cold and hard food, unclean food, toxic food.
2, mental factors: easy to anger, not broad-minded, sudden natural or man-made disasters, excessive fatigue, sadness, depression.
3, disease factors: rheumatoid arthritis, heart disease, liver disease, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, diabetes, chronic nephritis, can induce chronic gastritis.
4, other unforeseen factors: natural disasters, rescue, excessive stress, hunger.
Western medicine.
1, gastric mucosa protective factor damage factors: poor dietary habits, smoking, alcohol abuse, taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to chronic infection foci in the pharynx, etc. can form an attack factor to destroy the gastric mucosa protective factor.
2, bacterial infection factors: In recent years, it was found that Helicobacter pylori and chronic gastritis have a certain causal relationship. Among them, gastric ulcer, erosive gastritis, gastric H. pylori onset positive detection rate of more than 99%.
3, bile reflux factors: duodenal contents are mainly bile, intestinal fluid and gastric juice, these fluids, especially bile reflux stimulate the pylorus leading to closure disorders, bile reflux into the stomach, stimulating the gastric mucosa inflammation, and in severe cases reflux into the esophagus, forming reflux esophagitis.
4, immune factors: decreased immune function, weakness.
5, other disease factors: heart failure, arterial hypertension caused by gastric mucosa to give blood hypoxia, hyperthyroidism, diabetes, chronic hypoadrenocorticism, etc.
What are the criteria for chronic atrophic gastritis?
1, with more than 1-3 basic clinical symptoms.
2, gastroscopy: microscopic gastric mucosa color red-white, predominantly white phase, or local gray-white, gastric mucosa thinning, submucosal vascular network permeability is seen.
3, pathological biopsy: gastroscopy was done to take biopsies at typical inflammatory sites in the stomach, gastric mucosal glandular atrophy 1/3 for mild atrophic gastritis, atrophy 2/3 for moderate atrophic gastritis, and severe for most glandular atrophy.
Treatment.
1, usually eat more nutritious, light, easy to digest food, a small number of meals, eat less sweets and easy flatulence, oil steaming, fried food. Prohibit smoking, alcohol and spicy.
2, avoid or do not use food and drugs that are irritating to the stomach.
3, superficial gastritis can take aluminum thioglycollate, gastritis combination; atrophic gastritis is often accompanied by acid deficiency symptoms, can be given dilute hydrochloric acid, pepsin combination.
4, maintain a good psychological state, avoid impatience, anger, excitement and other bad emotions.
5, to regularly check the gastroscopy, follow-up visits to the hospital, under the guidance of the doctor medication treatment.