Cancerous ulcer in the elderly should be cared
Gastric ulcer is a common disease in old age, one of the serious consequences of a relapse into cancer. If the following conditions must heighten their vigilance.
1. The nature of pain and patterns of change in
Gastric ulcer pain, upper abdominal pain for more than performance, was burning like or dull pain, and the onset of pain associated with the consumption, is generally in the 1 ~ 2 hours after a meal there, and then gradually reduce. If the pain and loss of the above-mentioned laws and become irregular attack, or as persistent pain, or pain in nature than in the past has undergone an obvious change, should be alert for the cancer precursor.
2. With the anti-ulcer drugs ineffective
Although easy to recurrent gastric ulcer, but usually after taking anti-ulcer drugs, the symptoms were generally able to alleviate. If you routinely take anti-ulcer medication for some time, the effect becomes obvious, or even ineffective, it should be suspected to be a precursor to cancer.
3. Progressive weight loss
Patients in the short term loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fever and progressive wasting, then the possibility of cancer significantly.
4. There hematemesis and melena
Patients with frequent vomiting blood or there in the near future tar-like stool, fecal occult blood test results continued to be positive, and severe anemia, these phenomena have shown that gastric ulcer may be malignant cancer.
5. Abdominal mass
Gastric ulcer formation in patients with abdominal mass is generally not, but if a cancer, ulcers will be bigger, hardens, the terminally ill can touch the upper left abdominal mass. Mass texture, hard, showed nodular, non-smooth, pressure of the pain.
Gastric ulcer patients and their families should pay attention to changes in condition, if found out that the clues to be an alert to go to the hospital in time, it was discovered the problem in order to expedite treatment, prevent the adverse consequences.
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