An ulcer can be treated quickly and easily [1]
The days when ulcers were considered a difficult to treat debilitating condition is happily behind us. With the increased understanding of this disease and the development of new drugs, you are now a mere seven days time your problem redeemed.
An ulcer or ulcer is caused by damage to the normal lining of the stomach or the first part of the small intestine. Easy sake we talk about an "ulcer", although in most cases the term "intestinal ulcer" correctness.
Causes
An ulcer is caused by the action of the stomach to the lining of the stomach or small intestine. Every human stomach produces about 2 liters per day, which is necessary for the digestion of food. Yet develops (fortunately) not everyone a "ulcer". In other words, there are facilitating factors that make one person though, and the other person does not "swear" gets.
Previously it was generally accepted that peptic ulcer disease was a typical welfare, including a result of stress and an inadequate diet. It was almost considered a status symbol for hurried businessmen. But then an annoying symbol.
A stomach ulcer, so ran the theory, was caused by an excessive production of stomach acid. That did not seem illogical. Our food is after swallowing in a bath of acid, a highly corrosive fluid in the stomach that aids digestion of food. In people who eat too fast, much drinking at or just after meals - especially alcoholic beverages and coffee, which are very fat or very high protein food or a lot spicy sauces, etc. would be too much stomach acid formed. Smoking, stress, etc. would lead to an excessive production of that corrosive stuff.
Normally the intestinal wall that resists the action of acid, but too much is too much. Result: the stomach acid eats away at the intestinal wall and there is a known ulcer. Athans, so people thought.
Anyway 20 years ago, two Australian scientists discovered almost accidentally in the stomach of patients with gastric ulcer bacterium with an exotic name 'Helicobacter pylori'. Around the same time was the Belgian doctor G. Tytgat - who has been working in Amsterdam - the bacteria on the track. To prove their theory, even infecting the two Australian doctors themselves, and they were promptly sick ...
Initially, this discovery came on a lot of disbelief from colleagues, but today is evidence that gastric ulcers in nine cases out of ten are caused by the microbe. Duodenal ulcers are always even by those bacteria causes.
Whence comes the bacterium is still a mystery. It is thought that it is transmitted from human to human, possibly during childhood.
Peptic ulcers are very common: about one in 10 Belgians has to do with it. A peptic ulcer refers literally a hole in the lining of the stomach or duodenum. This causes a burning, painful, gnawing feeling in the upper abdomen or below the chest that temporarily can be illuminated with milk or drugs that inhibit gastric acid production. The food does not taste and after dinner we will sit down with a bloated feeling, or you feel nauseous and vomit.
Sometimes an ulcer may lead to serious complications such as stomach bleeding, a perforation of the stomach, etc. And an ulcer (or Helicobacter pylori) is one of the main causes of gastric cancer.
Because they did not know better, we tried once the excessive production of stomach acid to slow down. A disgusting diet based mainly on milk and various papjes, an absolute prohibition of alcohol, coffee and almost any normal diet, was often considered necessary. In combination with acid-reducing pills and potions. And if none of that helped, was a part of the stomach removed. But after a few months, the ulcer usually returned.
At the end of the seventies led a new generation of acid-blocking drugs for a first mini-revolution. With these drugs the ulcer disappeared after a few weeks. But within the year, he usually returns. With the result that the (expensive) drugs should remain almost constantly swallow, and then came back often ulcer.
