What are the causes of insufficient gastric motility

Insufficient gastric motility is actually what we often call indigestion in our daily life. The common factor causing indigestion is improper eating. The stomach is where we digest food. If there is a problem with the stomach, the whole person will feel as if the stomach is stuffy.

Influencing factors

1. Gastric secretory dysfunction: There are two types of cells with secretory function in the human stomach wall, one secretes digestive enzymes and the other secretes gastric acid. When the function of these cells declines, the secretion of digestive enzymes and gastric acid also decreases, which reflexively inhibits the contraction and peristalsis of the stomach muscles, resulting in gastric motility disorders.

2. Mental and emotional changes: Mental stress and sadness can disrupt gastric electrical activity, affecting the sympathetic nerves and causing slow gastric muscle contraction frequency. Food in the stomach cannot be discharged into the intestines in time, resulting in food and gas retention in the stomach, causing abdominal distension, belching, nausea and many other symptoms.

3. Functional dyspepsia: The gastric emptying rate slows down, causing a series of indigestion symptoms, which is called "functional dyspepsia". Because the proximal stomach's ability to accommodate and store food declines and cannot relax normally after eating, patients will experience a feeling of fullness, usually accompanied by belching, abdominal distension, and even nausea and vomiting.

4. Improper eating: eating too much radish, potato, sweet potato, chestnut and other foods. Overeating and overeating will cause the stomach to overload, the stomach muscles will not move enough, the stomach will not be able to empty on time, and food will accumulate in the stomach for too long, which will lead to insufficient gastric motility.

5. Bad living habits: Bad living habits, such as excessive smoking, can relax the pyloric sphincter and cause bile reflux. Drinking alcohol can damage the gastric mucosa and cause gastric motility disorders.