All about Dyspepsia
What is Dyspepsia?
Dyspepsia is a disease that causes pain or discomfort in the upper abdomen.
Causes of Dyspepsia
Backflow of gastric acid, gastric irritation, gastric cancer, inflammation of the gall bladder, the stomach‘s inability to digest milk and other dairy products, bowel movement disorders, and depression.
Symptoms of Dyspepsia
Discomfort in upper abdomen. In some cases, food can aggravate the pain. Whereas in other cases can actually reduce pain. Handling If no cause is found, the doctor will treat symptoms and pain.
Overview of Stomach Ulcers
Heartburn can strike anytime. Morning, afternoon, evening or night. As soon as stomach ulcers (gastric) attack, the patient would be bothered. Not eating, the stomach was sore. Filled stomach like going to vomit. Other symptoms that feel the heartburn, bloating (stomach feel full), bloating, belching, early satiety, abdominal rumbling (borborgygmi) until the exhaust gas often. Symptoms can be acute, recurrent and chronic. Is called chronic if the symptoms last more than one month continuously.
If it is so, the activities and work productivity would decline. Symptoms of ulcer disease in the above can occur at any age, especially above 20 years of age. Between 50-60% the number of events in the community. That is, 1 of 2 people had experienced symptoms of heartburn.
Based on the cause, dyspepsia or heartburn can be divided into two, namely organic and functional. Organic dyspepsia is the time when endoscopic examination found no organic abnormalities in the middle line of the form of ulcers / sores spots, polyps or tumors in the stomach, gastric ulcers and ulcers 12 fingers. The causes are often multifactorial, often also associated with the germ Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) as the cause. H. pylori bacteria cause infection peptic ulcer disease (PUD). H. pylori colonized in the deepest layer of the mucosa, which is the protector of the gastric mucosa and impairs their function as protectors.
As for functional dyspepsia occurred in the absence of structural abnormalities of gastric organs (such as ulcers want any cancerous tumors), while clinical examination, biochemical until other investigations, such as ultrasound, endoscopy, X-rays to CT scans.
Subdivided on the basis of functional dyspepsia symptoms. There are types of ulcers, in which the dominant is the pain. There dismolititas type, which caused abnormal bowel movement (motility) of the upper gastrointestinal tract (esophagus, stomach and upper small intestine), or slowing the emptying lambung.tipe dysmotility disorders, the dominant feel is a sense of nausea, full and bloated. There is another type of non-specific / mixtures, whose symptoms are joint pain in the pit of the stomach and nausea, bloating and vomiting, but no specific or dominant.
Typically, ulcer disease occurs because of two things. Namely, functional impairment that is not working properly and stomach disorders anatomic structures. Functional impairment associated with the movement of the stomach, which is related to the nervous system in the stomach or the things that are psychological, anatomical structure disorder, may be a wound, erosion, or can also be a tumor.
Mentioned in the literature related to lifestyle, especially eating disorder can cause symptoms of heartburn. It happened because the stomach produces gastric acid to digest food on a regular schedule. In fact, when sleep is still producing stomach acid even though there was no food to be digested. Gastric acid in the amount of balance required to aid digestion. But, if excessive can cause problems. Gastric acid production usually increases when the body needs, when to eat. Conversely, when not required, the production of stomach acid will decrease again.
