Stomach Ulcer Causes, Treatment And Diet

 

Everything You Need To Know About Stomach Ulcers.

The number of stomach ulcer cases in the world drastically surges among people who are aged40 or older, according to data. Experts says the top three age groups that reported the most cases of stomach ulcers in 2016 were people in their fifties, sixties, and forties.

The combined number of patients from these groups adds up to more than 430 thousand, people making up nearly 54 percent of the total tally.

It occurs when digestive acids start eating away at the tissues on the inner surface of the stomach. This happens when the mucous layer coating around the stomach to provide protection is weakened enough to let the acids infiltrate.

Symptoms include massive pain in the middle of the abdomen between the chest and the belly button, nausea, belching, vomiting, and weight loss.

First is an infection with the bacterium called Helicobacter pylori, which accounts for the patients in most developing countries. The second cause is the long-term use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory medicines, such as aspirin and ibuprofen.

The total number of stomach ulcer patients in the world has continued to decline over the past six years.

However, the constant rise in the number of middle-aged patients remains a concerning factor. Experts say promptly.

To protect against microbes and to digest food the stomach produces a very strong acid HCL( Hydrochloric acid), When microbes ingested, this acid will kill them in stomach.

A thick layer of mucus produce from the stomach wall protect the tissue of the stomach.

The acid can cause some severe damage to the stomach tissue, duodenum, esophagus which in turn causes ulcer If the mucus layer is worn away and stops functioning effectively.

Causes of Stomach Ulcer:

1) Helicobacter pylori:

2) second cause is Long term use of aspirin and NSAIDs (Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs)NSAIDs are mostly used in ages above 40 years for rheumatic diseases so at that age they can form ulcers if used continuously. NSAIDs are basically used for pain, fever, and inflammation.

Drugs in NSAIDs are:

Celocoxib, Diclofenac, Diflunisal, Ibuprofen, Indomethacin, Naproxen and Aspirin.If these drugs are used continuously will cause damage to the lining of the stomach and cause an ulcer.

What are the Risk Factors:

a) Alcohol use:

It will make the ulcer worse.

b) Smoking:

It will also make the ulcer worse and unable to treat early.

c)NSAIDs:

if someone effected by ulcer so these drugs should not be used, it will cause ulcer worse.

d) Spicy food:

Avoid spicy food in stomach ulcer.

e) Untreated stress:

This will make ulcer more worse if not treated.

Symptoms of Stomach Ulcer

1) Burning Stomach Pain:

It starts as a burning stomach pain from the belly button to the sternum and it can be unbearable on an empty stomach after having something for food it disappears that is the major symptom that we see in ulcer

Less common symptoms of Stomach ulcer:

a) Nausea

b) Vomiting

c)Loss of Appetite

Consult your doctor when you are sulfuring from severe cancer and when blood is shown in your vomit

e) Black stool:

f) one of the alarming symptoms include Weight loss in stomach also

Diagnosis of Stomach Ulcer:

1) Barium Chloride X-Ray:

Stomach, esophagus and duodenum is coated with barium liquid and the defective area will be observed in the X-Ray which is then used for biopsy. 

2) Endoscopy

 (Esophagogastroduodenal endoscopy) A small camera containing tube is inserted in the mouth and Esophagus, stomach and duodenum is observed in the screen for ulcer.

3) Direct culture from an Endoscopic biopsy specimen:

This test is expensive and sensitive and not performed in every lab.Here in the endoscopic picture you can see the ulcerative area which is taken and cultured.

4) Stool H. pylori Antigen:

This test is used for the diagnosis of Helicobacter pylori.This is a rapid test and stool is mixed in this buffer and then 2 to 3 drops are poured in the devise to check for two color lines if positive.

5)Blood H. pylori Antibody test:

h. pylori is a rapid test and antibody is checked in patients blood. 

6) Urea Breath Test:

Urea is attached to a capsuled which is engulfed and the detected by a specialized instrument with the help of a breath card, that is the confirmatory test for H.pylori 

7) Rapid Urease test in biopsy specimen:

If it changes its color to pink color it means Helicobacter pylori is present in biopsy sample. This is confirmatory test and very rapid performed on biopsy sample. the urease reagent in first bottle is pale yellow in which biopsy is placed

8) Histopathology , duodenum and staining of biopsy from stomach:-

It is then observed microscopically for Helicobacter pylori and other morphological changes of tissue.

Treatment of Stomach Ulcer:

1) Antibiotics:

Multiple antibiotic therapies are used against H. pylori like Clarithromycin and Ampicillin.

2) Acid-reducing drugs:

These are also used along with antibiotics to decrease acid production in the stomach.Acid-reducing drugs are: Cimetidine, Famotidine, Nizatidine, Ranitidine, Esomeprazole, Omeprazole, Lansoprazole, Gaviscon, Gelusil, Mylanta and there are so many.

You also need a balanced diet, individuals who have stomach ulcer are risk for bleeding , its really crucial that you speak with your health care professional before you make any drastic changes in your diet.

Its always important to talk to your health care provider heir are some tips in terms of treating a stomach ulcer at home the first thing to do was to follow an anti-inflammatory diet.

Anti-inflammatory diet

Make sure that you:-

• Avoid processed foods,
• Avoided caffeine,
• Avoided anything that would irritate the stomach at all

Focus on eating foods that were anti-inflammatory, which would promote gut healing s make sure to focused on an anti-inflammatory diet and eat things like green leafy vegetables avocado olive oil things with omega 3 fatty acid and antioxidants.

The best vegetable for gastritis is cabbage a little thing but have a major impact for your stomach to become inflamed it takes years sometimes it could take less than that.

Usually its a chronic problem after taking aspirin for many many years for some other problem or you took steroids or your diet has been really bad or you be taking antacids chronically that left you with now and inflamed stomach you may or may not have an ulcer but the lining of the stomach is inflamed and its very sensitive. 

Central abdominal pain is the center for gastric pain cause when you dump a lot of acid into your stomach it could be gnawing dull burning.

Workaholics with very little sleep lots of sugar and refined carbs and junk food not to mention a ton of coffee and they probably also have bloating.

There is some other triggers for gastritis, one would be H pylori that infection destroys the mucous lining in the side of the stomach, that mucous lining is very important to prevent acid from eroding and irritating the inner stomach.

H pylori also destroys the acid making cells, the pH of your stomach is going to go higher and higher and more alkaline and that's going to make it really hard to digest protein and kill microbes.

You have to be very susceptible to having other infections, getting food poisoning for example, if you had some chicken that wasn't thoroughly cooked and then you get this bacteria.

There is also a factor in your stomach, the intrinsic factor that allows you to absorb b12, without the stomach acid you are not have enough intrinsic factor and then you get anemia not to mention a whole list of b12 deficiencies.

The remedy for gastritis is the same for h pylori, you want to consume food high in sulf oraphane and that would be cabbage or broccoli sprouts or a combination of both of them.

Cabbage also has other phyto nutrients that greatly help in reducing inflammation because they are anti-inflammatory not to mention its loaded with vitamin C which actually cleans up a lot of the free radical damage

The cabbage could be in a juice form, it could be in a coleslaw, you may be able to do a sauerkraut, but its interesting that other vegetables will cause a lot of cramping, but a person with gastritis can pretty much tolerate cabbage pretty well.

Your diet in general, if you have gastritis is crucial, you just cant be on any diet need any food, you have to be very selective the food has to be very high quality, you cannot do any junk and you need to be doing intermittent fasting hardcore because you want to let your stomach and intestinal tract have a chance to not be exposed to food.

It can heal and I would highly recommend that as well, there is some other things you can do to inhibit this microbe, if you have this infection that would be mastic gum, you can get it as a supplement it works pretty well normally in your body.

Most people have this microbe and it does not create any problems it only comes out of remission becomes a problem if the environment is very unhealthy.

As long as you start eating healthily and you keep your stress low this should stay into remission but my recommendation and this is just my opinion is that you don't try to kill this off.

Everything that you are going to use to kill that off talking about antibiotics is going to come with a package, its going to create side-effects and then you may become antibiotic resistant and now you have a whole other series of problems that you have to deal with.

Put this microbe in remission, it doesn't bother you and check with your doctor before taking any of these recommendations, this is just my opinion so that being said there is some other things to do.

One is a pro biotic, pro biotic's inhibit h pylori and they also reduce inflammation you want to get a good one a liquid probiotic that does not get destroyed by the acidity of the stomach would be a good idea.

So many viral fever are into existence and life is getting shorter day by day.
You can also chew on raw black seeds to help reduce some of the pain lets say an hour before the meal.

Lastly zinc carnosine is one of the best things for not just gastritis but any type of ulcer you have in your body.

This is definitely a very important thing right there, you may also think you have SIBO and you may have SIBO small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, that's a situation we have the microbes it should be in the large intestine.

But they are in the small intestine where they should not be, if you are doing cabbage or any type of vegetables or even probiotic, its going to feed the microbes in the wrong place and you are going to get more bloating.

People should do a carnivore diet, if they have SIBO, the problem is if you have this infection right there and you have a low stomach acid and you are consuming a lot of meat protein without the hydrochloric acid to break it down its not going to work.

As you plant this information this thing will go back in remission, the stomach will slowly heal to the point where you don't have it, then you can start to acidify the stomach with apple cider vinegar betaine hydrochloride

Intermittent fasting is trending right now, a lot of people are either eating one meal a day or only having two meals a day but when you have a stomach ulcer eating a large meal will actually increase the production of acids in your stomach.

When you have that increased production of stomach acid obviously it will irritate the lining of your stomach and if you are dealing with a stomach ulcer you already know that when its hurting it feels like your stomach is on fire.

When you are in pain you don't want to do anything else to cause more pain, eating smaller meals throughout the day is good, for instance instead of having one meal, you can have a meal every three hours.

You should eat the foods that are rich in probiotics and the reason for that is because when you are eating these probiotics they will help to balance out your gut microbiome

Start your day with either 8 ounces of aloe vera juice or homemade cabbage juice and if

for breakfast make a bowl with yogurt and plant-based organic dairy-free cashew yogurt.

Breakfast

You can see that its per has probiotics in it so and it only has one gram of sugar when you look you also see that it has live and active culture so these probiotics are really good for good health.

You can also have almond butter, use one teaspoon of this almond butter this is just plain roasted almonds nothing else in it, some organic blackberries and some organic blueberries and use blackberries and blueberries because they are packed with antioxidants.

Ingredients:-

• Some chia seeds
• One banana whole or half it is up to you.
• Raw honey or manuka honey
• Cashew yogurt.
• One teaspoon of that almond butter
• The blackberries
• The blueberries

Method

Some chia seeds which you can sprinkle on top, chia seeds are great for fiber and also give you some protein

use a banana whole ore half it is up to you.

You can use raw honey or manuka honey if you want to you could add maybe a teaspoon of that raw honey.

Pour some of the yogurt that you should not have a large portion, remember when you have a stomach ulcer you want to eat small portions this is the bowl just has some of the yogurt the blackberries and blueberries it has a half a banana one teaspoon of that almond butter and then not even a half a cup of this cashew yogurt.

Just sprinkle some chia seeds on top and that's the breakfast

Its 12:00 p.m. and its lunch time

Ingredients:-

For lunch you can have a salad

In a bowl have

• Some spinach
• Some cucumber chopped up
• Some tuna
• Olive oil
• A half of an avocado

Method

Just take one whole avocado and cut it in half and use half of that

 Then on top just add some tuna it doesn't have any salt added

Just sprinkle some of the olive oil and mix that up with a little bit of salt

Coconut Kefir is a living probiotic shot these are so good and the serving size is two fluid ounces you can drink two fluid ounces of this before you eat your meal.

Before eating your meals have DGL or D glycerine Deglycrrhizinated licorice root extract.

Just going to chew two of these before you eat and what this does is that it coats your stomach so deglycrrhizinated lic or ice root extract is really great when you are dealing with a stomach ulcer.

3 p.m. Snack

Have some bone broth made from kettle and fire you could make your own bone broth at home, this particular flavor the mushroom chicken, tastes the best for using and what you can look for is the serving size is one cup and there are actually two servings comes with one package. 

Most of the fish flavor is in the head. 

Poure 8 ounces and its10 grams of protein and with this bone broth its great it doesn't have any thing that's inflammatory,it has chicken bone broth in it which is water chicken bones organic onions organic carrots this is a really good flavor.

Dinner at 6 o clock

Again eating small meals every three hours, while you have a ulcer is what worked for people, dinner at 6:00 you can have some salmon with roasted Brussels sprouts make extra that you can have it for the next day and you just have one piece of the salmon once its done.

Ingredients:-

• Wild caught salmon
• One tablespoon of olive oil
• Some minced garlic
• Some dried thyme
• Some turmeric
• Himalayan pink salt
• Some dried oregano leaves

Method

Always wild caught salmon is good and so all I am going to do is I am just going to sprinkle one tablespoon of olive oil just rub that in and then on top of that I am gonna season my salmon with some minced garlic.

Garlic is good for your gut very healthy anti-inflammatory, sprinkle some dried thyme on top, also sprinkle the worlds favorite anti-inflammatory seasonings which is turmeric

A little bit of Himalayan pink salt and some dried oregano leaves wrap all that in foil and stick it in the oven at 375degrees for 25 minutes.

Once you take that out it will be so delicious now in terms of what goes with with the salmon you can have some roasted Brussels sprouts, to make these Brussels sprouts.

All you do is just cut them in half, rinse them and then just toss them with a little bit of that Himalayan pink salt and also sprinkle some garlic powder on top and then add some olive oil and stick that in the oven as well.

The meal will be delicious and something that definitely will help you with your healing so definitely add this to your stomach ulcer diet menu plan because this one is yummy there is another option that you can have for dinner because people cant eat the same thing every single day.

You can have an alternative, If you are having the salmon, today tomorrow then have this other option to eat for dinner is Pacific sardines.

Second options

Ingredients

• Pacific sardines.
• Rice cauliflower.
• Olive oil.
• Some minced garlic.
• Some turmeric. 
  

Method

Heat Pacific sardines, stir-fry the cauliflower with just a little bit of olive oil the minced garlic and some turmeric a little bit of olive oil, garlic and then put that in the food processor.

Mash that up and basically it will be like mashed potatoes, but its really just mashed cauliflower and put the sardines on top and then for vegetables, cauliflower is vegetables but still again when thinking about gut health one of the things is make sure of having as many healing foods and as possible.

Steam some carrots and some broccoli, put that on the side and that's something else that you may eat for dinner so if you don't want to eat the salmon this sardine is another option

Sardines are good in omega-3 fatty acids, very good for you healthy anti-inflammatory so these are the options for dinner

Have 8ounces of mushroom chicken bone broth that's the snack and then at9:00 you must have something before going to bed is a cup of chamomile tea.

That is caffeine free because, if you are having caffeine that can irritate an ulcer but chamomile tea is great and soothing to your stomach especially when you have an ulcer and you will love to drink this at night time because again and you can also go to sleep really well drinking this chamomile tea.

Don't add any sugar or honey or anything its just plain water and Is tick the tea bag right in and have that before you go to bed and that's all the full day meal plan to heal the ulser

Conclusion

The learning objectives of this talk include A peptic ulcer is a roughened area or cavity which is found in the stomach or small bowel. Here we show the digestive system peptic ulcers can occur in the stomach or the first part of the small bowel which is called the duodenum.

The stomach produces acid to break down food. The stomach and duodenum have a layer of mucus which protects it so the stomach acid does not damage it A peptic ulcer occurs when the inside of the stomach or small bowel is damaged by the acid it attacks the tissue causing a lesion or ulcer to form the body's usual mechanisms.

Which protect the tissue lining the stomach and duodenum are not working properly. Here we show what a peptic ulcer looks like in the stomach. Peptic ulcers are usually about one to two centimeter across,they look like large mouth ulcers.

Sometimes the ulcer can erode the stomach wall and cause it to bleed. Rarely the ulcer may cause a hole to form this can cause severe pain and is a medical emergency.

There are some diet ideas and meal plans to get rid of this ulcer