Both duodenal ulcers and gastric ulcers can be treated effectively once diagnosed
Advances in medical science are creating many grateful stomachs. Stomach ulcers and need not be painful journey companions for life. This myth is false because it can break its causes are known and can be cured. Its treatment requires thinking about the two diseases other than those referred to in generic stomach ulcer: a duodenum ulcers, most are benign and gastric or stomach ulcers and, in a small proportion of cases, are malignant and are associated with ulcerated stomach cancer.
Gastroduodenal ulcers develop more frequently with increasing age, especially after 40 years. In this affecting certain drugs including no steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), among which include aspirin and whose consumption is more common among older people. Another factor that triggers this disease is infection with Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori), which also affects the elderly and is related to sanitary conditions. Their improvement in developed countries has allowed this decrease infection among the young.
It is estimated that 50% of the world population is infected with H. Pylori. The affected population varies from 20% when it comes to young adults in developed countries more than 50% (sometimes up to 90%) in developing countries. In Spain, 50% of the population suffers from this infection, though only between 15% and 25% recorded a peptic ulcer.
Can they be prevented?
Infection by H. pylori associated ulcers are not preventable, but treated once diagnosed. By contrast, in ulcers associated with consumption of anti-inflammatory it is possible to set guidelines for prevention. Risk groups among people who take NSAIDs are those with a history of ulcers, gastrointestinal bleeding, more than 60 years and consume more of an NSAID daily. When patients need for pain medications, you can use other anti-inflammatory analgesics and, if so inescapable need an anti-inflammatory, you can opt to choose the least damaging to the digestive system, because the more powerful is a inflammatory, the greater its capacity to damage the gastroduodenal mucosa. To prevent injuries caused by these drugs, it is advisable intake accompanied by a substance that protects the stomach from developing ulcers or bleeding. The most common are inhibitors proton pump (the popular omeprazole, a gastric shield is taken in the morning on an empty stomach 20 minutes before breakfast), or prostaglandin analogues (misoprostol).
Alarm Signals
Not all duodenal or gastric ulcers produce the same symptoms. Moreover, they can often remain silent for many years. The Spanish Association of Gastroenterology continues to insist that the H. pylori is acquired during childhood and may live for many years in the stomach, where it causes little inflammation is not always obvious. This bacterium only helps to develop ulcer in one of every ten people infected with it.
Tags: Anti-inflammatory analgesics, Anti-inflammatory drugs, Aspirin, Both duodenal ulcers, Drugs, Gastric ulcers, Gastroduodenal ulcers, Pain medications, Stomach ulcers, Treatment
