According to research data, the mortality rate of gastric bleeding is as high as 10%. Here’s a look at the symptoms of gastric bleeding. Only by knowing the symptoms of gastric bleeding in time can you quickly determine your condition without being delayed.
Gastric bleeding, commonly known as gastrointestinal bleeding, is caused by 40% of gastric and duodenal ulcers. People with a history of gastrointestinal diseases such as overwork, irregular daily diet and abnormal emotional tension are prone to develop the disease; followed by gastric bleeding caused by acute hemorrhagic gastritis. Most of the gastric bleeding caused by these two causes can be cured after treatment.
Stomach bleeding symptoms
The symptoms of gastric bleeding are mainly blood vomiting and blood in stool. Patients have a foreign body sensation before vomiting blood, a feeling of urgency before passing blood, black eyes, panic and even fainting after passing blood, pale face, thirst, rapid and weak pulse, and decreased blood pressure. The general clinical manifestations of gastrointestinal bleeding depend on the nature and location of the bleeding lesion, the amount of bleeding, and the speed, and are strongly related to the patient’s age and systemic kidney.
1. Vomiting blood and black stool
Vomiting of blood can be manifested in any bleeding that causes nausea and vomiting due to blood irritation. Generally speaking, when the bleeding volume is large, there is black stool and vomiting blood, while when the bleeding volume is small, there is often only black stool. If the bleeding site is in the duodenum, vomiting blood is less common.
2.The systemic symptoms caused by bleeding
If the bleeding speed is slow and the amount is small, there are usually no obvious systemic symptoms, and only anemia appears after a long period of bleeding. If the bleeding volume is large and fast, acute blood loss such as panic, cold sweat and pale face, and even blood pressure drop may occur.
3.Symptoms of the primary disease
The most common causes of gastric bleeding are ulcer disease, rupture of esophagogastric fundic varices, gastric cancer, esophageal cancer or duodenal cancer, bleeding from acute gastric mucosal injury, etc. If the bleeding is from ulcer disease, there is often a history of epigastric pain before bleeding; if the bleeding is from ruptured esophagogastric fundic varices, there is a history of cirrhosis and clinical manifestations of cirrhosis.
Ways to prevent gastric disease
1.Eating regularity
One of the most important habits in the usual diet is to eat on time, breakfast, lunch and dinner must be eaten on time, do not go to eat only when hungry, that has hurt the stomach. To eat less and more meals, this is very important for the stomach.
2, drink a glass of warm water before meals
The best time to drink water is one hour before the meal, immediately after the meal will affect the digestion of water.
3, three meals at regular intervals
Many people change three meals a day to two meals in winter, this practice is likely to cause gastric acid secretion disorder, so that the gastric mucosa damage. Three meals a day should be regular and quantitative.
4, the food should be cooked
In the meal to eat more vegetables conducive to digestion, and those meat food is more difficult to digest, especially uncooked food is more difficult to digest. So meat food must be cooked.
5, avoid stimulation
For example, do not drink more alcohol, whether it is beer or white wine, the stimulation of the stomach wall is very large. Especially if you like to eat spicy and greasy, plus drinking beer can easily lead to gastritis.
6, do not overeat
The actual fact is that you will not be able to get a good deal on your own.
7, chew and swallow slowly
Swallowing affects digestion and absorption, eating must be chewed and swallowed slowly. It is recommended that each mouthful of food chewed 30 times, no less than 20 minutes per meal.
8, eat more warm food
Winter meals should be supplemented with more carbohydrates, fats, proteins, such as beef and lamb, leeks, etc., to improve the tolerance of the muscle to low temperatures.
9, eat more stews and less cold
Winter days are cold, many people like to eat hot food. But too hot food will make the esophageal mucosa injury, too cold food will also stimulate the gastric mucosa. Winter food should be mainly warm.
10.Walk indoors after meals
Winter walk after meals can be changed to indoor, 20-30 minutes after the meal.
11.Keep your mood relaxed
Winter sunshine is shortened, easy to be depressed, to get as much sunlight as possible.
12.Take medication with care
Some drugs have stimulation to the gastric mucosa, old stomach disease patients are best to consult a doctor before taking medication.
If gastric bleeding cannot be effectively treated, it will seriously threaten the life of the patient. Therefore, once the symptoms of gastric bleeding, must go to the regular hospital for treatment in a timely manner, only after active and effective treatment of gastric bleeding will be effectively controlled and treated.