What is the best way to treat gastric bleeding?

Among all gastrointestinal diseases, gastric bleeding is considered a relatively serious disease, especially gastric bleeding caused by gastric perforation, which may cost the patient's life if not handled with care. However, medicine is more advanced now, and there are some better methods to treat gastric bleeding. Whether it is severe gastric bleeding or mild gastric bleeding, as long as you go to the hospital for treatment, there is a possibility of cure. How to treat gastric bleeding?

General treatment

1. The patient should lie in a supine position and 10 mg of diazepam can be injected intramuscularly if the patient is restless.

2. Those who vomit blood should fast, while those who have simple black stools can eat liquid food.

3. Patients with serious conditions should receive oxygen.

4. Place a gastric tube to suck out the blood in the stomach, understand the bleeding situation, and infuse drugs.

5. Strengthen care to prevent vomitus from being inhaled into the respiratory tract and causing pneumonia or suffocation.

General treatment methods

The diagnosis of acute gastric bleeding is mainly based on acute massive hematemesis and black stools. Generally, the bleeding does not exceed 500 ml, and most of the cases are vomiting blood, but some cases are bloody stool. The patient feels nauseous before vomiting blood, feels the urge to defecate before having bloody stools, and has black eyes, panic attacks, and even fainting after defecation. The patient looks pale, is thirsty, has a rapid and weak pulse, and has low blood pressure. Patients with ulcer disease often experience regular upper abdominal pain, which can be relieved by alkaline drugs. X-ray barium meal examination is of great significance in the diagnosis of ulcer disease. In addition to the possibility of feeling a mass, gastric cancer patients also have obvious symptoms such as loss of appetite, upper abdominal discomfort, indigestion, and weight loss, and the disease progresses rapidly. X-ray barium meal examination and gastroscopy can help to confirm the diagnosis. Patients with acute ulcers caused by drugs or stress ulcers caused by trauma usually have a history of long-term oral administration of aspirin, cortisone and other drugs, or have recently undergone major surgery or suffered severe burns.

Most patients with acute gastric bleeding can be treated with non-surgical methods. Specific measures include blood transfusion, infusion, and the use of various hemostatic drugs through different routes. Surgery may be considered for bleeding caused by gastric cancer and gastric bleeding that cannot be controlled by the above treatment measures.

If the patient has gastric bleeding and is in a critical condition, how should family members and friends deal with the emergency when the disease occurs? If the amount of bleeding is not large, then intravenous infusion can be used as the main treatment instead of blood transfusion. If the bleeding is moderate, then a certain amount of blood should be supplemented. If the bleeding is severe, it is best to go to a nearby hospital for emergency treatment.