Stomach pain after eating chili may be caused by physiological reasons, usually adjust the diet and routine can be relieved. However, it may also be caused by gastritis, gastric ulcer and other pathological causes, which can be relieved by medication such as omeprazole or surgical treatment.
1. Physiological causes: After consuming chili peppers, capsaicin stimulates the gastric mucosa, and the excessive secretion of gastric acid burns the gastric mucosa, resulting in stomach pain. Usually stop eating spicy and stimulating food can be relieved, you can also drink some milk to relieve.
2. Pathologic causes:
(1) gastritis: usually divided into acute gastritis and chronic gastritis, patients often manifested as middle and upper abdominal pain, abdominal distension, nausea, vomiting, etc., after eating chili peppers are prone to gastric pain symptoms, can be under the guidance of the doctor oral bismuth potassium citrate, omeprazole and other drugs.
(2) Gastric ulcer: the typical symptoms of patients are burning pain in the stomach, which may also be accompanied by indigestion, bloating, vomiting, etc. Eating chili peppers stimulate the gastric mucosa, which will aggravate the symptoms of gastric ulcer such as stomach pain.
It is recommended to take medication under the guidance of a doctor, mainly acid inhibitors (omeprazole), gastric mucosal protectants (bismuth pectin) and anti-Helicobacter pylori antibiotics such as amoxicillin and other drug therapy. A small portion of the gastric ulcer population can not be treated with medication, surgical removal of the gastric ulcer site is required.
Eat chili after stomach pain, in the exclusion of physiological factors, need to go to the hospital to improve the examination, clear cause of the symptomatic treatment, do not blindly use drugs to avoid delaying the treatment of the disease.