Esophagitis is an inflammatory change that occurs in the esophageal mucosa. It is also called esophagitis and has a very high incidence rate. Once sick, the esophageal mucosa of patients with esophagitis will undergo edema and congestion changes, which may even lead to erosion or ulceration, causing the patient to suffer from a series of uncomfortable symptoms such as chest pain, stomach heartburn, acid reflux, and dysphagia, which will seriously affect the patient's health. to the patient's routine daily life and health.

Once it is not treated and taken care of as early as possible, the probability of developing esophageal cancer will be very high. Therefore, once you get esophagitis, you should actively receive scientific and standardized treatment and do a good job in daily health care. So, what daily medical care should patients with esophagitis do?

1. Avoid dietary irritation

For patients with esophagitis, they must avoid dietary irritation in daily life. For example, do not eat any spicy food, and add Chaotian to all ingredients. Do not consume spicy food seasonings such as pepper and Sichuan peppercorns. Also avoid eating desserts or highly acidic foods, as these foods will irritate the esophagus. It is also necessary to eat some hot food. The esophageal mucosa itself has already been inflamed. Once you eat hot food, it will cause serious burns to the esophageal mucosa.

2. Eat small meals often

During the diagnosis, treatment and recovery period, patients with esophagitis must adopt a eating method of small meals frequent and avoid overeating or overeating. Otherwise, they will Resulting in obvious food reflux. During the treatment process, liquid or semi-liquid food should be the mainstay, and only two to three minutes of satiety should be maintained with each meal. During the recovery period, semi-liquid and liquid food should be the main food, and the amount of food provided at each meal should be maintained at 40 to 50% satiety.

3. Exercise appropriately after meals

After eating, patients with esophagitis can rest in place for about 10 to 20 minutes, and then stand up and walk for about 10 minutes. It can speed up the digestion of food in the stomach and prevent food reflux. Be sure not to lie down or fall asleep immediately after eating, as this will cause food reflux, acid reflux, and severe irritation to the esophageal mucosa.

4. Adjust the pillow height

Many patients with esophagitis will reflux food when sleeping at night, which will cause choking, which has a great impact on health. harm. Therefore, patients must pay attention to increasing the height of the pillow appropriately to effectively prevent reflux.

5. Increase water intake

Patients with esophagitis should try to increase their intake of warm water every day, which can promote the elimination of germs and inflammation and play a certain role in the treatment of the condition. Mitigating effect. It can also promote the increase and elimination of some secretions in the esophagus, which can effectively improve symptoms such as throat pain and acid reflux.

6. Increase exercise appropriately

During the recovery period, patients with esophagitis should appropriately increase some aerobic exercise to lose weight every day, such as walking. Especially within an hour or so after a meal, appropriate walking can promote the digestion of food and effectively improve the discomfort symptoms caused by esophagitis. It can also improve the patient's immune function and promote rapid healing of esophagitis.

In general, once you get esophagitis, you must be treated with medicines and other methods under the guidance of a doctor according to the type and symptoms of esophagitis, and you must do daily medical care. In particular, the above 6 points must be kept in mind to promote the rapid healing of esophagitis. In addition, if the patient still has very obvious symptoms such as swallowing pain, chest pain, and hoarseness after a series of treatments and maintenance, then he must be hospitalized and receive reliable treatment in order to protect the patient at the highest level. of health.