Inducement of acute gastritis and rehydration knowledge

September 14, 2009 · Posted in Knowledge of acute gastritis 

(1) chemical irritants: such as oral administration of certain drugs (such as salicylic acid salts, indomethacin, ibuprofen, phenylbutazone, iodine preparations, reserpine and adrenal cortex hormones, etc.), a large number of drinking hard liquor,

 Tea, coffee, etc., can stimulate the injury of gastric mucosa, causing gastric hyperemia, edema, or hemorrhage, erosion, an extent which rendered the occurrence of acute simple gastritis.

 (2) physical factors: eating too cold or too hot and rough food, foreign bodies, and persimmon stone to stimulate the stomach and gastric freezing radiation therapy can also be caused by gastric mucosal injury, causing inflammatory changes.

 (3) after eating contaminated by bacteria or their toxins in food: The most common is due to unclean food caused by acute gastritis, a common bacterial infection of staphylococcus exotoxin A, botulinum toxin, Salmonella endotoxin and bacillus acidophilus. Helicobacter pylori also appeared in the acute infection phase of acute gastritis, if not eliminate likely to translate into chronic active gastritis. Factors common viral infection with influenza virus, enteroviruses, measles virus, EB virus.

 (4) mechanical injury: indwelling stomach tube, stomach foreign body, gastric persimmon stones, hiatal hernia can be mechanical damage gastric mucosa. Another abdominal tumor after radiation therapy can cause acute gastritis.

 (5) Other factors: mental nerve dysfunction, stress state, the body caused by a variety of factors and certain systemic allergic diseases, such as diffuse liver disease, portal hypertension, uremia.

 Chronic pulmonary heart disease, respiratory failure, vitamin deficiency disease, intestinal malabsorption, and advanced cancer, etc. can be used as endogenous-stimulating factor, causing acute inflammation of gastric mucosa.

 Acute gastroenteritis is the most common diseases after the beginning of summer, once the bacteria, viruses gastroenteritis, often lead to patients became very sick, abdominal pain, endless, was very uncomfortable. Gastroenterology see a doctor, the doctor usually will recommend a half-day or day of fasting, and add lots of water.

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 Doctors, however, also warns that additional water is not just drinking water, it is best to drink with the appropriate salt, and moisture of the electrolyte solution, I am afraid that if the hard drinking water will lead to lack of body electrolytes, triggering the phenomenon cramps. Pharmacies where to buy rehydration salts can also buy back their own blunt.

 Summer approaching, every summer, apart from respiratory infection, acute gastroenteritis in the case of the most common pathogens, including salmonella, or adenovirus, enterovirus, etc., became very sick patients will appear, abdominal pain, fever and other symptoms, there may even be worse spastic abdominal pain, fever chills, anorexia, fatigue and so on. In general, the treatment of acute gastroenteritis takes about 3-7 days, in addition to medication, fasting 12-24 hours, the patients with non-stop since the pull may be dehydrated, so fasting should add enough water during the period.

 It is noteworthy that the child became very sick apart from the loss of moisture, but also the loss of electrolytes, it is best to add pharmacies to sell the “rehydration salts,” blunt, rather than pure boiled water. Some parents just blindly letting their children drinking water result, they are diluted out the body’s electrolytes, causing cramps and other “water intoxication.” Sports drinks on the market although there are salt, but the drinks are also high in sugar will give children diarrhea continued diarrhea. As for the “rehydration salts,” which have the right amount of sugar and salt, became very sick can complement the loss of moisture, salt, high sugar content also will not result in sustained diarrhea.

 In addition, in patients with acute gastroenteritis, loss of appetite during recovery can eat light, easy to digest food. Children to eat gruel, pasta, soda crackers, apples, bananas and so on. For children under one year of age in order to milk-based infant formula baby food can be washed dilute some milk, or switch to a special formula without lactose, milk powder until the symptoms improve and then transferred back to the original concentration.

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