Gastritis: Do not make us come to an ulcer!
Gastric disorders are nowadays among the most common, slow digestion, heartburn, regurgitation, belching insistent, swelling and heaviness are only the most frequent symptoms suggestive of a stomach bug in the stomach and bowels of its function.
Events can be simple occasional spontaneous remission, recurrent disorder, or disorders that can become chronic, a sign of a disease that becomes dysfunctional organ and potentially severe.
What is surprising is the therapy, ranging from the frequent and usual indication and prescription by the doctor or specialist of anti H2 drugs or proton pump inhibitors for all forms of gastritis and hyperacidity dysfunction.
So far so normal, they are powerful drugs that reduce the acid secretion and normalize in a few days a mucosa also seriously damaged, whose use has been eliminated from the information gastrectomy for gastric ulcer.
But the long-term use of proton pump inhibitors has been linked to recent scientific work (The Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 2008) with a significant increase of osteoporosis and fractures from osteoporosis.
Not only where classical-counter antacids, such as the common calcium carbonate, as well as not caring at all gastritis because after the first momentary and apparent reduction of the following response characterized by acid hypersecretion, can, if used haphazardly, cause severe biochemical imbalances also potentially lethal.
This article reported the case of a pregnant woman who, taking over the counter antacids in large doses, combined with liberal doses of milk, came to the emergency room in serious condition, with a picture of hypercalcemia with acute pancreatitis and secondary diagnosis called milk-alkali syndrome.
All this to say that un'autoprescrizione, even banal, as in this case made by the counter antacids, which may cause damage if not treated in an emergency, even cause death.
Finally, the reduction in stomach acid, regardless of drug used, was related by Dr. Erika Jensen-Jarolim, University of Vienna to an increase in allergies and food intolerances and other studies seem to indicate even a small natural defense against the most common infections bacterial, viral.
The acidity of gastric physiology and its presence is certainly not accidental but dramatic reductions for long periods, protects gastric mucosa against excessive acids but fundamentally changing the environment of the entire digestive system.
The frequent use of anti-inflammatory drugs, combined with poor diet and emotional stress is the cause of the increasingly frequent use of antacid. These drugs, indipendetemente by nature are among the most sold and used at all, in turn, seem to be among those responsible for an increased incidence of other diseases like oseoporosi, osteoporotic fractures, food intolerances, allergies, and finally perhaps even make the body more sucette to infection.
In short the regular intake of these drugs indefinitely inexorably leads to recruitment of other drugs also only estimates. Is thus set up an ever greater reliance by the recruitment of chemical preparations and a sort of chain of successive and progressive imbalance or iatrogenic farmacoindotti not be underestimated.
Disregard and resistance is a considerable risk, because you may have the dreaded punch in the stomach, help yourself with OTC drugs is not like we said risk free, and take specific drugs prescribed by a specialist such as proton pump inhibitors for life however, leads to alterations of note. Finally rely solely and exclusively to a healthy diet and the common good advice "but come on, do not take it" may not be enough.
But then, why not think about caring differently? Acupuncture, herbal medicine, homeopathy, are all therapies that, if prescribed by specialists and experts in serious and possibly associated with a proper diet and living permanently solve the various problems dyspeptic going to the root of the disorder and not only by altering the gastric microenvironment. Not only that: they can also avoid the regular intake of anti-inflammatory drugs
And 'certainly demand more attention and time to heal in this way but I think it's worth stopping and thinking.
Moreover, if we consider the stomach as the center of power to assimilate nutrients, how can we think that its normal function and maintenance of its microclimate does not constitute a chief pillars of our whole health and our own blood?
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Tags: acidity, Acupuncture, Nutrition, gastritis, stress, ulcers
