Gastritis: let us avoid being sore!
9/11/09
The stomach is today among the most common sluggish digestion, heartburn, regurgitation, belching insistent, swelling and heaviness are only the most frequent gastric symptoms indicative of a problem that affects the stomach and bowels of its function.
Events can be simple occasional spontaneous remission, recurrent disorders, or disorders that can become chronic, a sign of a disease that has become dysfunctional and potentially severe organic.
What is surprising is the therapy, ranging from the common and usual indications and prescription by the doctor or specialist of anti H2 or proton pump inhibitor drugs for all forms of overt hyperacidity and gastritis.
So far so normal, they are powerful drugs that can reduce acid secretion and normalize within a few days also seriously damaged mucosa, the use of which has been eliminated from the indications for gastric ulcer.
But the long-term use of proton pump inhibitors has been linked by a recent scientific work ( The Canadian Medical Association Journal, August 2008 ) with a significant increase of osteoporosis and osteoporotic fractures.
Not only that, the classics-the-counter antacids, such as the common calcium carbonate, as well as gastritis because it does not cure all after the first momentary and apparent reduction in acidity followed by a response characterized by a hypersecretion of acid, may, if taken without criteria, biochemical imbalances cause severe, even potentially lethal.
