In everyday life, do you often find your stomach discomfort, suffocated, or repeatedly beset with nausea and appetite when you go to the hospital for a variety of stomach tests, but do you not find any visible signs of organogenic disease? If the answer is yes, then you’re probably experiencing functional indigestion. This seemingly common but vexing disease is affecting the quality of life of many people, and let us understand it today.
I. Awareness of functional indigestion
FD, functional indigestion, is a very common functional gastrointestinal disease. It consists mainly of persistent or repeated abdominal discomfort, which covers a wide range of unpleasant symptoms, such as swelling, pain, fever, early saturation, gas, nausea, vomiting, etc., which tends to be long, usually lasting for months or even years. Although there has been no physical change in the gastrointestinal tract, such as stomach ulcer, gastric inflammation, stomach cancer, etc., these functional disorders are like “invisible shackles”, which cause many inconveniences to the daily diet, work and life of patients.
II. Questioning the causes of morbidity
Gastrointestinal disorders: this is one of the core mechanisms of the FD. Under normal conditions, the stomach is co-ordinated by a pattern of creeping, grinding, mixing and gradual transfer to the intestinal tract for subsequent absorption. However, in FD patients, gastrointestinal creeping is either too slow, food is too long in the stomach, leading to abdominal swelling and early saturation; or it is not coordinated, causing stomach cramps and pain. For example, in offices where there is a lack of physical exercise for long periods of time, gastrointestinal power is generally lower than normal and the incidence of indigestion is relatively high.
Internal organs are highly sensitive: the gastrointestinal tract of the FD patient appears to be equipped with a “sensitive amplifier” and the sensory threshold for various irritation is significantly reduced. Whether it is normal food mechanical expansion irritation during the feeding process or chemical irritation of digestive fluids such as stomach acid, cholesterol, etc., the gastrointestinal tract is more keenly detectable and reacts strongly. Even if only a small amount of food is eaten, the patient will feel extremely swollen stomachs, while a slight retrenchment of stomach acid can cause a palpitation heart, pain, etc.
Psychopsychiatric factors: There is a inextricable link between emotional and gastrointestinal functions. The brain has a negative impact on the movement, perception and digestive fluids of the gastrointestinal tract through the nervous endocrine system, in chronic mental conditions of anxiety, depression and excessive stress. Students who are under pressure to move to school, and those working in the workplace with heavy workloads, often find a marked increase in indigestion symptoms during the stress phase, which is the psychological factor.
Dietary factors: Bad eating habits are referred to as FD’s “collaborators”. The stomach is overstretched by heavy and fast consumption; the food is over-eating without adequate chewing, making it more difficult to digest the stomach; and the preference for fat, sugary, spicy and irritating foods can stimulate stomach mucous membranes and disrupt the normal digestive rhythm of the stomach. For example, people who regularly eat fried foods, sweets or frequent visits to hot hot pots are more likely to suffer from indigestion symptoms.
III. Diverse clinical performance
Early saturation: This is typical of many FF patients, who just ate a few meals or even had little to eat, felt their stomachs full, as if they had lost the space to continue eating, leading to a significant loss of appetite and a significant decrease in the amount of food consumed.
Abdominal swelling: The stomach continues to swell, with balloons, sometimes accompanied by abdominal swelling, and patients feel increased and suffer from increased abdominal stress, especially after eating, which affects normal breathing and activity.
Abdominal pain: The concentration of pain in the upper abdomen can cause great distress to the patient by causing pain, pain, blunt pain or burn, pain of varying severity and lack of a clear pattern, which sometimes occurs in the empty abdomen and sometimes after eating.
Stifling: Frequent gasses, constant gas discharges from the inside of the stomach, not only self-disturbing, but may also cause embarrassment in social settings, often after a brief dent in the stomach and soon re-emerge.
Disgusting, vomiting: Some of the patients have a sense of nausea associated with vomiting when it is serious, usually with low vomiting, mostly of food that is not digested in their stomachs, and may have a slight reduction in stomach discomfort, but will soon be caught up in a new round.
IV. Diagnosis and identification of diagnostic points
Diagnosis of functional indigestion is not a one-off process, and doctors first need to have a detailed picture of the patient ‘ s medical history, including the frequency, duration, severity or extenuating factors of the symptoms, with particular attention to the association with diet, emotions and living habits. Medical examinations are concentrated in upper abdomen, where abnormal signs such as pressure pain and parcels are screened. Laboratory examinations typically perform tests such as blood routines, biochemical indicators, thyroid function, and so forth, so as to exclude indigestion caused by whole-body diseases; gastroscope examinations are the highest priority, and gestational ulcer, gastricitis, and gastrointestinal mucous membranes are eliminated by direct observation of oesophagus, gastrophosms, and stomach cancers, which can only be diagnosed as functional indigestion if the typical symptoms of the patient are excluded.
Responses and living adjustments
Eating: Following the principle of eating less, avoiding over-eating at a time, leaving enough room for digestion in the stomach; chewing slowly so that the food is fully chewed in the mouth and reducing the stomach burden; reducing the intake of high fat, high sugar, spicy irritant foods and eating more easily digestible foods, such as rice congee, pasta, vegetables, fruits, etc.; and taking care of regular feeding, regular rations, and avoiding starvation, helping the stomach to establish a stable digestive rhythm.
Psychological regulation: Learn to cope with stress and to ease the nervous tension by relaxing through meditation, deep breath, yoga, etc.; to break the vicious circle of stress and indigestion when anxiety, depression is more severe and it is difficult to extricate itself, by seeking the help of a psychologist in a timely manner, with specialized psychotherapy or medical intervention.
Moderate exercise: The persistence of periodic physical exercise, such as walking, jogging, swimming, cycling, etc., helps to promote gastrointestinal creeping and enhance gastrointestinal power. At least three to five campaigns per week, each of them for more than 30 minutes, so that the body can move and the gastrointestinal tract can follow “full of energy.”
Drug treatment: Depending on the patient ‘ s specific symptoms, the doctor has a specific choice of the drug. Patients with abdominal swelling and early saturation are given the option of a gastrointestinal booster, e.g. Dopanolone, Moshapoli, etc., to accelerate gastrointestinal runoff and improve gastrointestinal creeping; if abdominal abdominal pain is apparent, an antidote, e.g. pive-bromium, to relieve stomach convulsions; and, for patients with excessive gastric acid scintillation, heart fever, antiacid acids, and acidic acids, e.g. Omerazole, Reneyiddin, can be effective in reducing gastric acid concentrations and gastric irritation.
While functional indigestion does not endanger life, chronic discomfort can seriously affect the quality of life. Through scientific life management and reasonable treatment, we are well equipped to tame this little demon of the gastrointestinal system and to regain a comfortable and healthy diet. Let us now focus on gastrointestinal health and open a new chapter of good life with knowledge and action.
Indigestion, functional indigestion.
