In modern society, people’s life is stressful and fast-paced, more or less all have some gastrointestinal problems. Many people go to the hospital after the gastroscopy is not a major disease, see the gastroscopy report is often a variety of gastritis, such as atrophic gastritis, non-atrophic gastritis. The doctor said there is no big deal, but many people are still unsure, and the symptoms of stomach discomfort have not improved, they began to seek a variety of prescriptions, secret recipes, labor, and seriously affect the quality of life.
In fact, after having gastritis, the focus is not to drive the gastritis out, after all, as long as you eat, the stomach and food contact, gastritis may occur, is inevitable. What is important is that we learn to be kinder to our stomachs, to reduce the symptoms, and to live comfortably.
Understanding common gastritis
The two most common words on most people’s gastroscopy reports are: non-atrophic gastritis and atrophic gastritis, let’s understand these two words.
What is non-atrophic gastritis? It used to be also called superficial gastritis, meaning that there is gastritis, but it is not severe and the gastric mucosa is still normal in appearance and no atrophy has occurred.
There are many causes of this non-atrophic gastritis. Infection by various pathogens entering the stomach, such as the most typical Helicobacter pylori infection; smoking and alcohol stimulation; high mental stress, etc., can lead to inflammation of the gastric mucosa.
There are also many patients who, after gastroscopy, write “atrophic gastritis” on the report and are very nervous when they look it up on the Internet, saying that atrophic gastritis may become cancerous ……. It is totally unnecessary, as many elderly people have atrophic gastritis, but they do not necessarily have symptoms, it may be a normal change with age. There is a long distance from atrophic gastritis to gastric cancer. As long as you pay attention to it according to your doctor’s instructions and monitor it regularly, there is nothing to be afraid of.
What should I do if I have gastritis?
1.Medication
Patients with H. pylori infection can take medication to eradicate H. pylori, reduce the inflammation of the stomach and relieve the symptoms.
Under the guidance of a doctor, you can also choose drugs to treat the symptoms: for example, stomach bloating can be used to promote gastrointestinal peristalsis drugs; stomach acid reflux can be used to suppress acid and neutralize stomach acid drugs.
2.Improve lifestyle habits
Non-atrophic gastritis, the effect of medication is very limited, healthy living is also very important, the establishment of good habits is very important to reduce symptoms and prevent the development of the disease.
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Be careful with drugs that hurt your stomach: pay attention to adverse reactions to drugs when you take them, and if your stomach is particularly uncomfortable after using them, talk to your doctor about taking them after meals instead. Do not take all kinds of prescriptions and recipes whose adverse reactions are not yet clear.
Diet: Try to eat regularly, chew slowly, do not swallow. People who are prone to gastric distension can eat less and more meals.
3, keep a good mood
Many patients with gastritis are more anxious and depressed than others, and bad moods can have an effect on the blood flow in the stomach and secretion of gastric acid, leading to the appearance of gastritis.
You should keep a happy mood in your daily life and learn to reduce mental stress. Otherwise, you will fall into the vicious cycle of “bad mood → various stomach discomfort → symptoms make the mood worse → symptoms more severe”.
When stress, tension, anxiety and other emotions are more serious, should learn to self-regulate, timely relief, do not let bad emotions affect them for a long time.
If the bad mood is serious, you should seek the help of a psychologist if necessary.