Feeling hungry but without appetite is usually related to mental factors, functional dyspepsia, peptic ulcer and other factors.
1. Psychological factors: some patients are in a long-term nervousness, anxiety, depression, often appear the symptoms of loss of appetite. Usually when the patient’s mood improves, the symptoms of loss of appetite can be relieved.
2. Functional dyspepsia: usually associated with overeating, eating too fast, eating after inactivity, intestinal peristalsis slows down, will cause gastrointestinal flatulence, and accompanied by abdominal bloating, loss of appetite and other symptoms.
3. Peptic ulcer: for example, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, etc., gastrointestinal mucosa is ulcerated state, easy to aggravate abdominal pain after eating, so some patients will appear hungry but no appetite performance.
It is recommended that patients with long-term loss of appetite and accompanied by rapid weight loss in the short term seek medical attention in a timely manner to identify the cause of the disease and then targeted treatment.