By Dr. Nitin Aherrao, Gastroenterology,

Stomach ulcers are sores that rise in a stomach backing and a tiny intestine. They tend to form when a digestive juices in a stomach start to erode a tissues of a stomach. A stomach ulcer is customarily diagnosed regulating an endoscope, a fiber ocular tube that is extrinsic into a throat. This device helps in observation and identifying a ulcer.

Stomach ulcers are simply cured, yet they can turn serious though correct treatment.

Certain factors and behaviors can put we during aloft risk of building stomach ulcers:

1. smoking
2. frequent use of steroids (such as those for treating asthma)
3. hypercalcemia (overproduction of calcium)
4. family story of stomach ulcers
5. being over 50 years old
6. excessive expenditure of alcohol

Symptoms of Stomach Ulcers-

The many common sign is a blazing prodigy or pain in a area between your chest and swell button. Normally, a pain will be some-more heated when your stomach is dull and it can final for a few mins or several hours.

Other common symptoms include:

• dull pain in a stomach
• weight loss
• not wanting to eat since of pain
• nausea or vomiting
• bloating
• burping or poison reflux
• heartburn (burning prodigy in a chest)
• pain improves when we eat, drink, or take antacids

Talk to your alloy if we knowledge symptoms of a stomach ulcer. Even yet annoy might be mild, ulcers can wear if they aren’t treated.

Treatments-

1. Once a commotion has been diagnosed, a treatments are prescribed. For amiable ulcers, drugs are prescribed depending on a cause. For instance – if a means of a ulcer is a bacterial infection, afterwards it can be treated with antibiotics. If drugs do not help, afterwards medicine might be required.
2. Initially, antacids might be administered that assistance in shortening a pain, yet this magnitude usually provides proxy relief. The aim of ulcer diagnosis is to revoke a apportion of poison in a stomach and strengthen a stomach lining. If a ulcer is due to a bacterial infection, afterwards a triple therapy is generally used to provide a ulcer.

What is a Triple Therapy?

The triple therapy is a multiple of antibiotics and a electron siphon inhibitor that is used in a diagnosis of ulcer. If drugs destroy to work, afterwards surgical diagnosis might be required. In box of ulcer hemorrhage, a source is identified and afterwards treated accordingly. Surgery can also assistance in shortening additional poison secretion by a stomach. Avoid intake of too most iron supplements as it can means exasperation to a stomach lining.