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Now there is no clear evidence that the pressure of modern life or fast-food diet can cause stomach and intestinal ulcers, but in our society is so common. Sometimes in life, about one in 10 Americans out of people because of a stomach ulcer suffering abdominal pain.
Peptic ulcer in the duodenum is that (the upper small intestine) or the stomach mucosa layer of protection gap or injury, the injury site with acid and digestive enzymes contacts. Duodenal ulcer is more common than gastric ulcer, is relatively rare esophageal ulcers, these ulcers in the esophagus and is usually caused because of alcohol abuse.
Until the mid-1980s, people think that only by pressure ulcers, gastric acid secretion inherited too many bad eating habits (including the doting high-fat diet, alcohol, coffee and cigarettes). People believe that is precisely for these reasons led to the accumulation of acid corrosion and stomach, duodenum and the protection of the esophagus.
Excessive secretion of gastric acid ulcer is in the process of development has played an important role, but the theory of a bias that bacterial infection is the first cause of peptic ulcers. In fact, as early as the mid-1980s study found that there is more than 90 percent of the patients have duodenal Helicobacter pylori, about 80 percent of gastric ulcers in patients with the bacteria.
A number of other reasons also cause ulcers. Inappropriate use of non-prescription drugs (such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen), the large number of drinking and smoking can increase even impetus to the formation of ulcers. Research shows that smokers than non-smokers more easily develop into a duodenal ulcer and drinking alcohol are more vulnerable than in the esophageal ulcers, long-term use of aspirin than not are more prone to use Gastric ulcer.
Research shows that gastric ulcer on the more vulnerable people in the age. This is probably because these people easy to arthritis, to alleviate the pain of arthritis, they must take daily doses of aspirin or certain ibuprofen. Another reason may be due to increase with age, Helicobacter pylori (connecting the stomach and duodenum valve) lax, resulting in excessive bile (the liver of a help to digest the complex) to infiltrate into the stomach to corrosion Gastric mucosa.
At the same time, there are some unknown reason, A-type blood are more easily develop into cancer gastric ulcer.
Duodenal ulcer tend to appear in type O blood, may be due to their type O blood cells do not have the protection of the duodenum submucosal material.
Fortunately, the treatment of peptic ulcer is relatively simple. In many cases, doctors use antibiotics, acid and other agents to reduce gastric acid production of drugs to treat peptic ulcers. Of course, there are many self-help treatment help relieve pain, heal ulcers. For example, peptic ulcer other dangerous anemia, bleeding and gastric cancer are very serious, so doctors should have been monitoring ulcer disease.
