With the change of lifestyle, more and more people become atrophic gastritis patients. Atrophic gastritis is a type of chronic gastritis, which is very common in clinic.
Atrophic gastritis is characterized by atrophy of gastric mucosa epithelium and glands, decreased number, thinning of gastric mucosa, thickening of mucosal base, or accompanied by metaplasia of pyloric glands and intestinal glands, or atypical hyperplasia. The common symptoms are abdominal distension, belching, loss of appetite, emaciation and anemia.
The incidence of atrophic gastritis is relatively high, it is not easy to cure, and it is closely related to the occurrence of gastric cancer, especially those with intestinal metaplasia or atypical hyperplasia, which is more likely to become cancerous.
Studies have shown that the probability of developing from chronic atrophic gastritis to gastric cancer is about 0.5%- 1%. Therefore, there are still some risks, and patients with gastritis must pay attention to treatment.
At present, atrophic gastritis can be treated by general methods, such as adjusting eating habits, quitting smoking and limiting alcohol, avoiding using drugs that damage gastric mucosa, or by weak acid treatment, anti-Helicobacter pylori treatment, inhibiting bile reflux, improving gastric motility, increasing mucosal nutrition, pentagastrin and other methods, to achieve better therapeutic effects.
Why should we pay so much attention to the treatment of atrophic gastritis? After reading a set of data on stomach diseases and gastric cancer in China, you will have the answer.
According to the data, there are more than 500 million patients with gastric diseases all over the world, of whom1.200 million are from China. In 20 12 years, there were about 95. 1 10,000 new cases of gastric cancer in the world, and about 50% of the cases were concentrated in China. Among 183 countries in the world, the incidence and mortality of gastric cancer in China rank fifth and sixth respectively.
From the data point of view, China has become a big country of gastric cancer, which seriously threatens the life safety and health of our people. Then, what factors are related to the high incidence of stomach diseases and gastric cancer in China?
First, bad eating habits
Whether you are too hungry, too hot, or prefer barbecue, frying, smoked food, and preserved foods such as bacon, salted fish and pickles, these are the eating habits that many Chinese people are accustomed to. However, these bad eating habits happen to be the "criminals" who are most likely to hurt the stomach. If you are not careful, the gastric mucosa will be seriously damaged, and some foods even contain a lot of carcinogens, which will accumulate in the cancer body and be of no benefit to health.
Second, Helicobacter pylori infection
Helicobacter pylori infection is one of the most important pathogenic factors of gastric cancer in China. Data show that the incidence of Helicobacter pylori is as high as 40%-60% at present, and nearly 97% of patients with gastric cancer are caused by Helicobacter pylori, environmental factors and genetic genes.
The infection of Helicobacter pylori is mainly related to unsanitary eating habits. Eating together, not using public chopsticks and mouth-to-mouth feeding for children will increase the spread of bacteria.
Third, smoking and drinking
China is a veritable tobacco and alcohol country. Smoking and drinking are risk factors of gastric cancer, which leads to a high incidence of gastric cancer. Smoke contains many carcinogens or substances such as dibenzocazole and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and smoke contains harmful substances such as nicotine, which can also induce gastric cancer.
These bad behavior habits damage our stomachs little by little every day, but many people don't know anything about it, and even if there are symptoms related to gastric cancer, they never think about doing gastroscopy. There is no habit of regular physical examination, which is also one of the important reasons for the high incidence of gastric cancer in China.
In addition to atrophic gastritis, many people suffer from stomach diseases, big or small. Some people have raised concerns: if chronic stomach diseases are not cured, or if they are not cured for a long time, will they develop into gastric cancer?
Generally speaking, from gastritis to gastric cancer, it is a multi-step canceration process. Clinically, there are countless patients with gastritis, gastric ulcer and gastric polyp, but only a few of them develop into gastric cancer within 10, because from gastritis to gastric cancer, it takes a long process of "chronic superficial gastritis → atrophic gastritis → intestinal metaplasia → dysplasia → gastric cancer". In this process, if we can intervene in time, the incidence of gastric cancer will be greatly reduced.
In the gastroscope report, if it is chronic superficial gastritis, most cases can be cured as long as the eating habits are actively adjusted. If it is chronic atrophic gastritis, it is necessary to intervene and treat it in time and review it regularly.
Generally speaking, not all gastritis will develop into gastric cancer, but it cannot be taken lightly. The most important thing is to adjust bad eating habits and actively cooperate with treatment.
Finally, it should be noted that patients with chronic gastritis should go to a regular hospital for examination in time if they have these conditions, so as to find chronic gastritis early and judge its disease progress, so as not to miss the best time for diagnosis and treatment. For example:
Over 40 years old and has a family history of gastric cancer;
Frequent symptoms of upper abdominal discomfort such as abdominal distension, nausea and vomiting;
No deliberate dieting, a great weight loss in a short time;
Abnormal stool, bloody stool, black stool, etc.;
During physical examination, tumor markers were found to be elevated or pepsin was abnormal.
The body is the capital of the revolution. Usually, we should pay more attention to the physical condition, especially those who have a bad stomach or have stomach problems for a long time. We must find subtle abnormalities in the body in time and check the body regularly.
Generally speaking, at present, most stomach diseases are caused by long-term bad eating habits. People who have irregular meals, overeat, or like to eat mala Tang, barbecue and other foods must adjust their diet in time and develop healthy living habits to avoid stomach cancer coming to their door. # The truth is coming ##39 Health Super League #
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