What to do if you feel uncomfortable with stomach congestion

For friends who experience symptoms such as stomach blockage, they don’t know what to do. So what should they do if they experience stomach blockage? Next, this article will introduce you to what to do if you feel uncomfortable with stomach blockage, for your reference only. Friends who want to know what to do if they suffer from stomach congestion can continue reading! Please see the detailed introduction below.

The discomfort of stomach congestion is mostly caused by indigestion. Indigestion refers to a group of clinical syndromes with uncomfortable symptoms such as upper abdominal pain, upper abdominal distension, early satiety, belching, loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, etc., after examination has ruled out the organic diseases causing the above symptoms. Symptoms may persist or recur, with a course of more than one month or a cumulative total of more than twelve weeks in the past twelve months. It is the most common functional gastrointestinal disease in clinical practice.

What should I do if I feel uncomfortable with stomach congestion? If it is caused by indigestion, symptomatic treatment should be given, following the principles of comprehensive treatment and individualized treatment.

1. General treatment

Develop good living habits, avoid smoking, drinking and taking non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. No special diet, avoid foods that trigger symptoms in personal life experience. Pay attention to providing psychological treatment based on the different characteristics of the patients. People with insomnia and anxiety can be given appropriate sedatives.

2. Drug treatment

There is no specific medicine, and treatment is mainly empirical.

(1) Drugs that inhibit gastric acid secretion are generally used for patients with upper abdominal pain as the main symptom. H2 receptor antagonists or proton pump inhibitors can be used selectively.

(2) Gastrointestinal prokinetic drugs are generally suitable for patients whose main symptoms are upper abdominal distension, early satiety, and belching. Selectively take domperidone, itopride, etc.

(3) Helicobacter pylori eradication therapy may be effective for a small number of FD patients with Helicobacter pylori infection and can be tried for those with severe symptoms.

(4) Antidepressants can be tried for patients who do not respond well to the above treatments and have obvious psychiatric symptoms. Commonly used antidepressants include tricyclic antidepressants; selective inhibitors of serotonin reuptake, flupentixol-melitracen tablets, etc. It is advisable to start with a small dose and pay attention to the adverse reactions of the drug. It is recommended to take it under the guidance of a specialist physician.

(5) Other mucosal protective agents can be used, such as aluminum hydroxide gel, bismuth, sucralfate, and mezilin-S.

The above is an introduction on what to do if you feel uncomfortable with stomach blockage. I believe that after reading the above introduction, you already know what to do if you feel uncomfortable with stomach blockage. From the above introduction, we can know that indigestion is the main cause of stomach blockage. If indigestion is diagnosed, it needs prompt treatment. I hope that the introduction in this article will be helpful to friends who want to know what to do when they feel uncomfortable with stomach blockage.