To determine the ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, you need to know some things that will help in the future to save and restore the shaken health. Here are useful recommendations and a very accurate approach to an attempt to diagnose peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, self-medication under any circumstances and conditions is unacceptable!
Firstly, how to diagnose an ulcer, based only on information on Internet pages, the issue is very controversial. It is necessary to understand the medicine at least a minimum. Leave the physician to the therapist, gastroenterologist or surgeon the right and the opportunity to determine the peptic ulcer and 12 PCs of the patient.
Secondly, remember that an ulcer and stomach and 12 duodenum almost always hurts, because the mucous membrane is inflamed. Pain can be minor, pulling. Pain can also be sharp, blunt, biting, cutting.
So, the first sign, or symptom of a stomach ulcer that determines it, is a severe pain in the epigastric region, which arises and intensifies after eating, when the food is acidic, coarse, salty, fatty, fried.
Stomach ulcers are characterized by cutting pain in half an hour - two hours after eating. They often give in the back. The patient even begins to feel fear of eating.
The pain of the duodenal ulcer is very clearly related to the intake of food - it is appeased. And at night the hungry pain resumes. That is, the pain is hungry, fasting. Comes 4 hours or more after the last meal. And hydrochloric acid irritates the inflamed mucosa of the duodenum.
In determining and diagnosing gastric ulcers, in addition to pain, vomiting is also important. A gag reflex occurs at the time of the greatest manifestation of pain. The condition after vomiting is somewhat facilitated. Acidity in the stomach falls. The presence of traces of blood in the vomit, ie, bloody vomiting - a reliable diagnosed definition of a stomach ulcer.
But with a duodenal ulcer, there is usually no vomiting. If it is bleeding, it is not visible. With significant blood loss, you can find black stool - the so-called tarry stool.
To determine the presence and localization of ulcers, an X-ray examination with a contrast agent called barium is used. Thus.it is possible to detect and diagnose a "niche" on the mucosal relief.
With the help of an endoscope, you can see the ulcer defect itself, determine its bottom, the degree of penetration, the contour, the edges, even take a piece of stomach tissue - a biopsy and direct it to a histology. This is a very informative method for determining peptic ulcer and stomach and duodenum.
For a more informative base for setting the defining and correct diagnosis of ulcers, blood and urine tests are collected, acid-forming function of the stomach and its contents are analyzed. Especially try to identify the microbe that causes the stomach ulcer - Helicobacter. Helicobacter pylori - the causative agent of a stomach ulcer - feels well and lives in gastric juice and its mucous membrane.
In order to correctly identify the stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer, you need to undergo a comprehensive examination with a competent specialist on special medical diagnostic equipment.
If you want to know more about what causes an ulcer, what provokes it, how to prevent it, read the materials on this site.
