Is cardia relaxation a serious disease?

Relaxation of the gastric cardia is a type of stomach disease. Its main manifestation is that after eating, the gastric gas will rise, causing the food eaten into the stomach to flow back into the gastroesophageal tube, and it will be accompanied by bursts of stomach acid. Most patients with gastric cardia have irregular diet and eat too much. Some people want to eat one more bite even though they are full. This is most likely to cause relaxation of the gastric cardia. So, is this disease of gastric cardia serious?

Due to temporary imbalance in neural regulation, the lower esophagus and the gastric cardia lack muscle tone, and the cardia relaxes, resulting in frequent opening of the cardia, allowing the emulsion in the stomach to reflux into the esophagus, causing complications such as esophageal inflammation and respiratory system complications. It is now classified as one of the causes of gastroesophageal reflux.

[Diagnostic points]:

1. Vomiting: It usually occurs in the first week after birth, manifested as regurgitation of milk, mild vomiting or projectile vomiting, and often occurs when the baby is lying flat after coughing.

2. Respiratory diseases: such as aspiration pneumonia, etc.

3. In severe cases, dehydration and malnutrition may occur.

4. Esophagitis.

[Treatment principles]:

1. Body position: Place the child in an upright position 2-3 hours after feeding.

Achalasia, also known as cardiac spasm and megaesophagus, is a functional esophageal disease caused by neuromuscular dysfunction in the cardiac part of the esophagus. Its main features are lack of esophageal peristalsis, high pressure in the lower esophageal sphincter and weakened relaxation response to swallowing.

Its clinical manifestations include difficulty in swallowing, pain behind the sternum, food reflux, and cough and lung infection caused by accidental inhalation of food reflux into the trachea. Patients can use medication and traditional endoscopic treatment in the early stages of the disease; if they can persist, they can generally achieve longer-term symptom relief.

The clinical manifestations of achalasia include difficulty swallowing, pain behind the sternum, food reflux, and cough and lung infection caused by accidental aspiration of food reflux into the trachea.

The stomach has two openings, the upper one for food entry is the cardia. The reason for the slowness is that it is always in a state of tension. For mild cases, patients should eat small meals frequently, chew slowly, and take sedatives and antispasmodics, such as the calcium antagonist nifedipine. Symptoms can be relieved in some patients. To prevent food from flowing into the respiratory tract during sleep, you can use a high pillow or raise the head of the bed.