Smoking and alcohol abuse have the most obvious short-term effects on ulcer disease and can trigger or lead to recurrence, and tobacco and alcohol also play a role in accelerating the progress of chronic diseases like atrophic gastritis.
The term “bad stomach” usually refers to common diseases that occur in the stomach, such as gastric ulcers, duodenal ulcers, atrophic gastritis, etc.
Helicobacter pylori is often the culprit of various gastric diseases, but some bad habits often “help the enemy”, including smoking, alcohol abuse on the “ulcer disease” the most obvious short-term impact, can trigger or lead to recurrence, and tobacco and alcohol to atrophic gastritis such as In addition, tobacco and alcohol also play a role in accelerating the progression of chronic diseases such as atrophic gastritis
Gastric ulcers and duodenal ulcers are often associated with pain, and other stomach disorders are often associated with acid reflux and indigestion.
Gastric and duodenal ulcers used to be called peptic ulcers because previous studies have shown that gastric and duodenal ulcers are formed by the digestion of the mucosa itself by gastric acid and pepsin.
In fact there are other causes of ulcer disease, and smoking and alcohol abuse are the most common triggers that aggravate or trigger gastric ulcers.
Smoking hurts the stomach
Smokers think that nicotine will only enter the lungs, but do not know that nicotine into the lungs will enter the systemic blood circulation, which will also cause vasoconstriction and spasm under the gastric mucosa, and the gastric mucosa appears ischemic. So that after smoking the gastric mucosa resistance to stomach acid decreased, more likely to form gastric ulcers.
For people with “stomach disease”, smoking can slow down the healing of ulcers, and even evolve into a chronic disease. In addition, nicotine will make the gastrointestinal mucosa vasoconstriction, also make appetite loss.
Alcoholism hurts the stomach
Drinking large amounts of alcohol at a time can lead to acute gastritis, and long-term intake of large amounts of alcohol can lead to more serious chronic gastritis. Alcohol abuse, especially high concentrations of liquor, can directly damage the gastric mucosal barrier, leading to gastric mucosal congestion, edema, erosion, and even bleeding.
Under normal circumstances, the gastroduodenal mucosa has perfect defense against gastric acid and self-repair mechanism, which is sufficient to resist the erosion of gastric acid and pepsin. But the high concentration of liquor damaged the gastric mucosal barrier, breaking the self-protection mechanism so that the gastric acid, pepsin erosion of the mucosa occurred either lightly or heavily, leading to acute and chronic gastritis, and in serious cases can lead to ulcer formation.
Avoid smoking and alcohol can promote gastric mucosa repair
Although great progress has been made in the treatment of peptic ulcers, serious complications can occur if the treatment and prevention of peptic ulcers are not taken seriously.
The dangers of peptic ulcers should not be taken lightly, and many complications may occur if peptic ulcers are left untreated for a long time, the more serious of which include: gastric bleeding, gastric perforation, pyloric obstruction and cancer.
Peptic ulcer medication is still quite good, if not the above four complications most ulcer disease can be treated in internal medicine.
Treatment key: eradication of H. pylori can greatly reduce the probability of ulcer recurrence. Adjunctive treatment: eat regularly, avoid being too hungry and too full, quit smoking and drinking, reduce intake of strong tea and coffee, etc.
A reminder for those with “bad stomach”
It is worth noting that some of our friends have been saying they have a “bad stomach” for a long time, but what causes stomach discomfort is not very clear, “too many people in the hospital, too much trouble to see a doctor, for years,” has become a variety of reasons for not seeing and.
All diseases that occur in the stomach can be called “stomach disease”, from the common acute and chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, to the rare stomach cancer, are “stomach disease”.
For example, a common vague pain in the stomach can be caused by gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, or functional gastrointestinal disease, or even stomach cancer.
Therefore, a clear diagnosis is necessary for “old stomach problems”. If you know you have a “bad stomach”, but you have never been formally treated, this is undesirable, because the lack of a clear diagnosis often results in delayed treatment.
Here to tell “bad stomach” friends in addition to quit smoking and drinking, to develop healthy habits, but also remember to check, diagnosis, to do their own mind.