White-collar Xiaoli is a software engineer, do not look at his just graduated only two years, young and promising, outstanding performance, income, in the unit, the circle of friends has been a little famous. Workaholic he often work overtime, extra time to complete the design and development of software, usually stay up late drinking coffee, Sriracha chili sauce mixed with instant noodles as a midnight snack has become a common occurrence. During this period, he always felt a little tingling in that area of the stomach when working late at night, eat some cookies or drink some water to get much better. It just so happens that a bottle of imported gastric medicine bought from Hong Kong is on the desk of a colleague in the unit, and regardless of the three or seventy-one, Xiao Li picked up the mouth to try, I did not expect the medicine to be very spiritual, eaten without pain. After several times of stomach pain, Xiao Li simply asked his colleague to send him a bottle so that he could save his life when he had stomach pain at ordinary times. The colleague suggested that he go to the hospital for a checkup, but he kept pushing that he didn’t have time, and that there was nothing wrong with him during the Spring Festival unit physical examination. This night, Xiao Li’s stomach problems again, or take a colleague’s medicine, but this time the medicine does not work, the pain is so painful that his eyes, cold sweat soaked back, a sharp pain after he went to the bathroom and found a lot of black stool, which can scare him. In the company of his family, Li went to the hospital to see a doctor who, after a detailed consultation, recommended that Li do a gastroscopy. The results of the gastroscopy suggested an ulcer in the bulb of the duodenum, which is the cause of his black stools and chronic nighttime stomach pain. The doctor explained that if the ulcer leads to severe gastrointestinal bleeding or perforation of the digestive tract, it can be life-threatening in severe cases. It was only then that Xiao Li understood the seriousness of his stomach problem and was fortunate to seek medical attention in time. Under the doctor’s professional guidance, he was given eight weeks of regular treatment with medication, after which Xiao Li had his gastroscopy reviewed and the ulcer was cured. Many office workers may have similar habits and problems as Xiao Li mentioned above, and learn to be family doctors themselves under the propaganda of TV, internet and advertisements. Then the question arises, if there is usually stomach pain, stomach pain may be caused by what? How can you tell that it is a stomachache? Can you take medication on your own to solve it? What are the drugs we often take? Is it possible to take them? How to take them? What are the consequences of blind, random medication? When should we go to the hospital for consultation? The author will take you one by one to solve the mystery. Stomach pain is a common concept and an extremely common clinical symptom, and there are even some people who understand bloating caused by abdominal distension as stomach pain. What the people call stomach pain when they go to the doctor or in their daily life is actually not exact, and when they point out the painful area, it should often be described as epigastric pain in the formal medical terminology. In the field of diagnostics and anatomy, the upper abdomen covers the following organs, including the stomach, duodenum, part of the small intestine, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, both kidneys and adrenal glands, and the transverse colon. Therefore, it is logical that the so-called stomach pain is a problem or discomfort in these organs. Common causes of stomach pain include Hp infection, acute gastric mucosal lesions, gastric ulcer, duodenal bulb ulcer, acute pancreatitis, acute cholecystitis, biliary stones or kidney stones, biliary ascariasis, pyloric or intestinal obstruction, intestinal sleeve, visceral torsion or ischemia, visceral rupture, abdominal wall disease, radiating pain due to cardiopulmonary and vascular disease, etc. Sometimes it is difficult to identify the cause of stomach pain, and the symptoms are not typical, so clinically it can only be treated by doctors’ experience while examining, and even some cases can only be diagnosed when they progress to a certain severity. For the people, is there a simple way to determine whether stomach pain is a stomach ache? In the author’s opinion, a stomachache may be a stomachache if the following symptoms accompany it. For example, acid reflux, belching, early satiety, bloating, loss of appetite, burning sensation or heartburn in the upper abdomen, especially if the stomach pain is associated with eating, or relieved after eating or aggravated after eating. All of these may indicate a stomach problem. However, if there are symptoms such as difficulty in eating or black stool or vomiting blood, it is recommended to seek medical attention promptly. Do not judge the stomach pain blindly! If it is not convenient to go to the doctor, we usually have to find some medicine to eat for stomach pain. The vast majority of families will have some drugs, many housewives especially like to go to Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan or abroad to buy some imported drugs, what stomach medicine is suitable to put at home to spare? Commonly used gastric drugs are the following categories: 1, acidulants: including omeprazole, lansoprazole, rabeprazole, ranitidine, famotidine, etc., the role of such drugs is to efficiently and quickly inhibit the secretion of gastric acid and the removal of H. pylori, so as to achieve the effect of rapid pain relief; 2, mucosal protective agents: including magnesium aluminum carbonate, aluminum thioglycollate, bismuth potassium citrate, gastric Xian-U, etc., the role of such drugs is to cooperate with 3, antispasmodics: including scopolamine (6542), Nosepa, etc. These drugs are mainly used to relieve pain caused by spasm of cavity organs; 4, Chinese patent medicine preparations: including Sanjiu Gastrodia, Si Mo Tang, Baoji Pills, Belly Pain Stomach and Intestine Pills, Shuangfei Ren Potion, Shell Stomach San, Stomach Nai’an, etc. The author believes that preparations such as proprietary Chinese medicine can be kept at home for backup. As for the first few types of drugs, it is best to apply them only under the guidance of a professional doctor. If the symptoms improve after taking home remedies, you can observe for 1-2 days and continue to take them as appropriate according to your situation. However, if the symptoms do not improve significantly after taking home remedies or if the symptoms recur, it is recommended to visit a specialist at a regular hospital within a short period of time, and if necessary, a targeted examination may be required to clarify the diagnosis. Blind and casual use of drugs may sometimes lead to misunderstanding of the disease. There are many cases of stomach pain caused by gastric cancer mistaken for gastric ulcer attack. These patients often take acid suppressants and mucosal protectors to treat stomach pain, but they have recurrent attacks and finally go to the hospital and undergo gastroscopy to find that the stomach ulcer has progressed to stomach cancer. The common means of examination for stomach pain are ultrasound or gastroscopy of the upper abdomen or barium meal examination of the upper gastrointestinal tract, etc. It is best to go to the hospital in the state of fasting for examination.