You may be wondering what this condition is about or what actually causes this or probably, what exactly happens to the body when someone get Peptic Ulcer? Well...you need not to worry, that is why I'm here today.
Apparently, Peptic Ulcer Disease is a disease of the gatrointestinal tract where a person develops a sore or injury, what is usually termed as an ulcer, along the gastrointestinal tract. Basically, there are two types of PUD which is classified based on the site with which the sore is usually found. These include;
✓ Oesophageal Ulcer(rare, found in the oesophagus).
✓ Gastric Ulcer(found in the stomach).
✓Duodenal Ulcer(found in the duodenum).
Each of these ulcers comes with similar signs and symptoms e.g fatigue, nausea, anaemia, vomiting, heartburns, loss of appetite and weight loss in gastric ulcer patients, increase in appetite and weight gain in duodenal ulcer patients,abdominal pain and etc.
🛑🛑NOTE🛑🛑 One major way to distinguish between the two main types of Peptic Ulcer is when the pain occurs. Gastric ulcer pain usually occurs immediately when the person eats or when food enters the stomach whiles Duodenal ulcer pain occurs minutes to an hour after eating. With duodenal ulcers, the food tends to relieve their pain so they eat a lot but with the gastric ulcer, pain worsens with food.
These three conditions collectively known as Peptic Ulcer Disease are usually caused by infection by Herlicobactor Pylori, smoking, intake of alcohole, prolong starvation, excess intake of spicy foods, prolong and excess intake of pain medications(NSAIDs) which hinders the production of the mucous needed to line the stomach and duodenal surface layer, and among others.
Once you've been diagnose of Peptic Ulcer, it cannot be cured because there's no cure to it. If you're lucky enough to have an early diagnosis and a small sore size, it can heal but if not, the affected person will be left with no choice but to embark on a lifetime management.
Various managements include, ensuring appropriate eating habit and following the medication regime in order to avoid the reoccurrence of the radiating pain.
Abstainance from smoking, alcohole, and sedentary lifestyle is best to begin with if that is the cause. Every individual must avoid the misuse of pain medications, starvation and stress since all these exposes the stomach lining to the continuous release of the hydrochloric acid produced by the cells of the stomach purposely for digestion.
"Prevention they say,is better than cure." Let's all try our best to live a healthy life and avoid too much stress. Now that you know about PUD, thus if you didn't ken, make sure to apply the gained knowledge.
WHAT AT ALL IS THE ESSENCE OF KNOWLEDGE WHEN NOT APPLIED?
Thanks for taking your time to read, see you in my next post😉😘
written by your favourite newbie- osinda😉