Biophilia Tracker and Gastric Disease.one
Many people don't understand and don't pay attention to stomach diseases. In life, we can use the Biophilia Tracker device to "be lazy" and use the device to monitor our stomach, so that we can detect diseases early.
Stomach disease is a general term for many stomach-related diseases. They have similar symptoms, such as epigastric discomfort, pain, fullness after meals, belching, acid reflux, and even nausea and vomiting. Common clinical gastric diseases include acute gastritis, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, combined gastroduodenal ulcer, gastric polyps, gastric calculi, benign and malignant tumors of the stomach, as well as gastric mucosal prolapse, acute Gastric dilatation, pyloric obstruction, etc.
clinical manifestations
The most common are upper abdominal discomfort or pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and loss of appetite. The symptoms of gastritis and duodenal ulcer are burning pain in the upper abdomen, especially between meals, before breakfast or after drinking orange juice or coffee. Severe cases may have tarry stools, black stools or bloody stools.
1. Acute simple gastritis
Mainly caused by chemical substances, such as strong tea, coffee, spirits, condiments and other irritating substances, or taking salicylates, sulfonamides, anticancer drugs, antibiotics, reserpine, adrenal sebaceous steroids and other drug damage Caused by gastric mucosa; physical factors such as eating too cold, too hot or rough food and other damage to the gastric mucosa; and microbial infection or bacterial toxins. Acute corrosive gastritis is mostly caused by suicide or ingestion of corrosive agents such as strong acid and alkali.
2. Acute erosive (hemorrhagic) gastritis
It mostly occurs in the stress state caused by surgery, burns, shock, trauma, multiple organ failure, etc., and caused by drinking or taking non-steroidal drugs, accounting for about 20% of upper gastrointestinal bleeding.
3. Acute suppurative gastritis
It is mainly a purulent disease caused by bacterial infection of the stomach wall such as Streptococcus, Staphylococcus and Escherichia coli, also known as cellulite inflammatory gastritis. Acute gastritis is a reversible disease that can return to normal with treatment. With proper treatment, many patients with acute gastritis can get effective and complete recovery, which is characterized by rapid arrival and departure. However, if the treatment is not timely or thorough and the diet is not appropriate, the condition will persist for a long time, and it will be transformed into chronic gastritis.
4. Chronic gastritis
Chronic gastritis refers to the chronic inflammatory changes of the gastric mucosa due to various reasons. It is one of the most common and frequently-occurring diseases. It is characterized by a higher incidence in men than in women, and the incidence increases with age. The essence of chronic gastritis is that after repeated damage to the gastric mucosal epithelium, the mucosa is remodeled due to the specific regeneration ability of the mucosa, and eventually leads to irreversible atrophy or even disappearance of the inherent gastric glands.
(1) The cause of chronic gastritis is now generally considered to be chronic persistent infection of pathogenic bacteria, especially Hp (Helicobacter pylori); or transformed from acute gastritis; like acute gastritis, too hot, too cold, too rough food, etc. Physical factors are also one of the causes; in addition, chemical factors, such as strong tea, coffee, spirits, condiments, etc.; long-term use of large amounts of non-steroidal drugs (such as aspirin, indomethacin, etc.) can inhibit gastric mucosal prostaglandins The nicotine in tobacco not only affects the blood circulation of the gastric mucosa, but also causes the dysfunction of the pyloric sphincter, resulting in bile reflux, and all kinds of bile reflux can damage the mucosal barrier and cause chronic The occurrence of gastritis; in addition, immune factors are also the cause of chronic gastritis.
(2) Classification of chronic gastritis There are mainly chronic superficial gastritis and chronic atrophic gastritis, both of which sometimes coexist. Chronic superficial gastritis includes three types: simple, erosive and hemorrhagic. It can be divided into two categories according to the common disease site: Type A, rare, lesions occur in the body and fundus of the stomach, mostly caused by autoimmune reactions, type B, more common, lesions mainly in the gastric antrum, about 90% of patients Caused by Hp infection. Type B is the most common case in my country.
5. Non-ulcer dyspepsia
Non-ulcer dyspepsia is a functional stomach disease, and a small number of them are mild organic lesions. In the past, many doctors diagnosed the disease as chronic gastritis, gastric neurosis, gastrointestinal autonomic dysfunction, gastric dysfunction Indigestion, stomach cramps, etc. According to the latest epidemiological authoritative survey, the incidence of this disease in the population is as high as 10%, and it is also a common and frequently-occurring disease of the stomach. Patients will have intermittent or persistent upper abdominal pain or occasional severe pain and discomfort, nausea, vomiting, acid regurgitation, heartburn and other upper gastrointestinal symptoms, but clinical examinations such as gastroscopy, upper gastrointestinal barium angiography and hepatobiliary and pancreatic ultrasound etc., and cannot find organic or mild lesions in the stomach and other organs that cause these symptoms. That is to say, there are more subjective symptoms of the stomach, but there are few or no positive findings in the objective examination. The etiology should be related to gastric motility dysfunction, mild gastroduodenal inflammation, and mental factors.
Not only can we use the Biophilia Tracker device to spot disease, but we can also use the device to help us treat it. Disease is not scary, what is scary is that we don't pay enough attention to it, and we don't have enough awareness and strength to protect ourselves.