What causes enteritis?

Nowadays, many teenagers suffer from enteritis. Many white-collar workers also suffer from it because they are busy with work and are under mental stress for a long time. They do not pay attention to their diet and overeat. Another reason is that the body is overworked for a long time and the nutrition is not enough. Enteritis is caused by the combined effects of multiple factors, not a single factor. So, what exactly causes enteritis?

1. Autoimmunity: With the development of society, the progress of medicine, and the rapid growth of immunology, many diseases with unknown causes can be discovered. At present, immune diseases have a high incidence rate and are difficult to treat, which has attracted great attention.

2. Infectious factors: one of the main causes of colitis. Whenever the disease occurs, the use of antibiotics can control the disease and achieve treatment effects to varying degrees, which shows that it is related to infection. Humans are omnivorous. When they eat indigestion or spoiled food, intestinal lesions often occur, which is the majority of causes of colitis.

3. Genetics: The incidence of this disease is relatively high in blood-related families. According to statistics from European and American literature, about 15-30% of the direct blood relatives of patients with ulcerative colitis will develop the disease.

4. Neuropsychiatric factors: Most patients have certain personality traits, and have poor psychological tolerance and adaptability to major events in life. They belong to the category of psychosomatic disease, which emphasizes that psychological factors play an important role in the occurrence or course of the disease.

Enteritis is an acute inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract caused by bacteria or other reasons. It is one of the most common gastrointestinal diseases in summer and autumn. This disease is prone to occur in places and families with poor sanitation. The disease develops rapidly, with vomiting, diarrhea and abdominal pain as the main symptoms. Common pathogens are Salmonella, Halobacterium, and Staphylococcus. This disease is divided into four types: simple, corrosive, infectious, and suppurative.

The common causes of simple gastroenteritis are as follows:

1. Physical stimulation. Overeating, or eating food that is too hot, too cold, or too rough can damage the gastric mucosa and cause inflammatory changes.

2. Chemical irritation. Drinking strong alcohol, strong tea, coffee, spicy food and strong spices, or taking salicylates, sulfonamides, antibiotics (especially tetracycline, chloramphenicol, erythromycin), digitalis, indomethacin, reserpine, anticancer drugs, corticosteroids, etc. can damage the gastric mucosa.

3. Ingestion of food contaminated by bacteria or other toxins. Recently, it has been discovered that most cases are caused by viruses. Generally speaking, factors such as excessive drinking, fatigue, cold and mental stimulation are often the causes of the disease, which lead to the body's low defense function, allowing bacteria and viruses that invade the intestines to take the opportunity to multiply and grow, or cause disease due to the strong virulence of bacteria and viruses and the large number of germs. In addition, acute gastroenteritis may also occur when the human body is under severe stress, such as severe trauma, surgery, infection accompanied by shock, etc.

People with enteritis should pay more attention to their diet, do not eat too much, and do not wait until they are very hungry to eat. Pay attention to food hygiene, do not eat spicy, raw or cold food, and it is best to eat food that is cooked more softly. When sleeping at night, cover your stomach and avoid catching cold. Try to do more exercise to help recover from the disease.