Five alarm cancerous gastric ulcer

November 12, 2009 · Posted in Symptoms of gastric ulcer 

Ulcer disease is a common chronic systemic diseases, were divided into gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcers, also known as peptic ulcer. It is called a peptic ulcer, because the past that the gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer is due to gastric acid and pepsin digestion of the mucous membrane itself is formed, in fact, gastric acid and pepsin is only one of the main ulcer formation There are other causes of ulcer disease can be formed. Because the cause of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcers, and there are many similarities between clinical symptoms, the doctor is sometimes difficult to distinguish between a gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, it is frequently diagnosed as peptic ulcer or gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer . If you can clearly ulcers in the stomach or duodenum, it can be directly diagnosed as gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer.

Ulcer medicine belongs to the motherland, “Stomachache,” “hepatogastric gas pains” and “Heartburn,” “Tunsuan” and other areas. Many people referred to as “chest pains” and “stomach pains” and “stomach”, “hunger fed TB” and so on.

Ulcer disease with recurrent episodes of rhythm on the clinical features of abdominal pain, often accompanied by heating, back sour, hot, noisy and so feeling, and even nausea, vomiting, vomiting blood, blood in the stool. In the gastrointestinal locally were round, oval-shaped chronic ulcers.

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 over the performance of gastric ulcer pain, pain in upper abdomen, showing burning-like or dull, 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 anti-ulcer drugs ineffective although easy to recurrent ulcers, 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 of 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 in the near future patients with frequent vomiting blood or there tarry 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 occurs in patients with gastric ulcer and the formation of 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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