Treatment Strategy of Peptic Ulcer
If you are diagnosed as due to the formation of Helicobacter pylori infection in peptic ulcer, then you need to conduct a series of antibiotic treatment of the disease.
If your ulcer is due to the use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs cause, then it should immediately stop using the drug, it will slow down the healing of ulcers.
Some drugs is to reduce gastric acid secretion, and they apply to all of the peptic ulcer, these drugs include: H2 blockers and proton pump inhibitors.
Changes in living habits such as smoking and alcohol, which will facilitate the treatment of ulcers; men, less than two a day for women is less than a wine.
General treatment of the ulcer is invalid or will be easily induced the formation of cancer complications. This case, the need for endoscopy in order to facilitate observation of the stomach and upper small intestine (duodenum) ulcers, screening of H. pylori, or remove the biopsy is cancerous. But sometimes, after the treatment did not relieve their symptoms, they may be due to other factors of serious or grave-induced. This requires you and your doctor communicate in order to understand the real cause of the symptoms.
If the formation of ulcers penetrate the intestinal wall or stomach ulcer, or how to treat ulcers regardless of any contingent continued bleeding, then you need to take surgery, but these complications are uncommon.
In most cases of peptic ulcer is due to Helicobacter pylori infection or use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs caused. Drugs to reduce gastric acid secretion is applicable to all of peptic ulcer. If Helicobacter pylori infection would need to use antibiotics and other drugs used in combination.
As the currently used drugs for the treatment of peptic ulcer relatively significant, surgery on the application of relatively less. Surgery is generally used in the treatment of peptic ulcer induced by life-threatening complications in patients, such as severe bleeding, perforation and obstruction. In some cases, even these complications do not need surgical treatment.
Initial treatment
The initial treatment of peptic ulcer disease depends on its cause.
Helicobacter pylori infection. Clear Helicobacter pylori usually takes two kinds of antibiotics, bismuth compounds or to reduce the combined gastric acid secretion in three kinds of drugs such as proton-pump combination. Elimination of infection can accelerate the healing of ulcers to avoid its recurrence. Sure to follow the good doctor’s prescription medication that can clear the bacteria to prevent recurrence. Do not stop medication until halfway got better. Not work if the bacteria have been fully cleared, it will be more difficult to clean up after (the emergence of drug).
Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. If you can you should stop using non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, if you must use, you should use some drugs to protect the stomach. If you want to learn more you can focus the article on the subject of drugs.
Excessive gastric acid secretion. Generally due to excessive secretion of gastric acid-induced ulcers should be adopted to reduce gastric acid secretion of drugs. At the same time still have to give a doctor check to see if there are other reasons-induced ulcers.
Of unknown causes. If you have not found ulcers induced causes (primary ulcer), you can use to reduce the drug to treat gastric acid secretion. Treatment time depends on the severity of ulcers and other factors, such as ulcer size, whether there are complications, but also what is used treatment measures.
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