They can also cause this disease:

• Diets rich in foods that damage the mucosa
• Contracting the bacteria Helicobacter pylori.
• The realization of long fasts that causes the body to secrete acid while not eating food.
• A constant stress in daily life (generates production of large amounts of stomach acid)
• The snuff
• Alcohol intake

However, the present one or more of these causes does not mean you should suffer from gastritis. Usually exist in the disease picture is a close relationship between two or more of these determinants which enhance one another, as stress and snuff, or prolonged fasting and alcohol.

It is well known, given the wide diffusion of this information has had in recent years, smoking has more than three my substance that which “nicotine” is responsible for dependence snuff and cigarettes contain between 1 and 2 mg. of that component.

Toxic by inhalation of cigarette are eating about 0.8 mg of nicotine per unit and when nicotine reaches the brain causes the release of dopamine causes the neurons are excited, and after a while the person must increase the consumption of snuff to keep that sense of apparent well-being is itself the product of that reaction.

Over time, neurons no longer respond so directly to the stimulus and the effect of dependency develops to snuff. In addition to dependence, also the heat produced by the cigarette in his mouth mucosal damage and predispose the smoker to suffer from diseases such as gastritis and even ulcer.

Cigarette smoking also produces a decrease in the absorption of vitamins A, B, and C, essential for processes such as scarring may occur. So the damage produced in the gastric mucosa and those who suffer when you suffer from gastritis sue for a longer time to heal. It also increases the risk of heart and artery problems, besides being carcinogenic.

There is a belief, by people who smoke, when stressed the fact that smoking relaxes them and actually feel only a small amount of time an apparent calm which is caused by having already become addicted to nicotine.

In reality when one is subjected to strong pressure, resulting in the states of stress or anxiety, abolition of the cigarette that would cause increased anxiety and snuff inhaling smoke what that feeling is temporary relief. In fact, the cause of that anxiety or stress is not being controlled to snuff.

The appropriate solution to the problems of stress or anxiety is to overcome the causes and learn to handle pressure balanced.

Treatment for gastritis when you’re smoking must be a way to address the two situations simultaneously, otherwise health will be at risk for can not be solved either.

In the case of gastritis must first remove the causes that encourage damage to the gastrointestinal mucosa and therefore will have to change your diet making a more balanced and certain foods, avoiding prolonged fasting, the snuff and stress. In fact, this is a radical change in lifestyle.

To achieve the results sought the specialist may prescribe a medication to help, but if habits do not change the condition will not improve and conversely the trend will get worse or at best, there may be an apparent improvement but gastritis will be present again.

It should be remembered that there are now many treatments to quit smoking and overcome stress, you only want to make a profound change, put in place to achieve safe and that this approach will provide for better health.

Acute gastritis
This acute inflammation of the gastric wall with inflammatory lesions and endoscopic atrophic, there are:

• gastritis drug are the most common: they are ulcerative and hemorrhagic
• gastritis Stress during severe surgical diseases (acute renal failure, …), serious infections and severe burns,
• gastritis, herpes virus CMV frequent since the advent of AIDS,
• gastritis by ingestion of caustic accompanied by ulceration and hemorrhagic necrosis.

Clinique
Gastritis are very different and may be a characteristic ulcer syndrome, atypical epigastric pain or gastrointestinal bleeding revealing.

Treatment
It is based on the decision of the causative agent and the use of antacids and PPIs (the proton pump)

Chronic gastritis
1. Atrophic gastritis disease Bierne
It is an autoimmune disease, resulting in a achlorydie a lack of secretion of intrinsic factor, essential for the absorption of vitamin B12 (at the ileum). This disease causes anemia associated with neurological disorders.
Diagnosis: macrocytic anemia (large GR), the casing achlorydie gastric fundic atrophy on biopsy and fall of vitamin B12 in the blood.
The Schilling test is diagnostic.
Treatment is based on injection of vitamin B12 for life.

2. Hypertrophic gastritis of Menetrier
It is a rare condition revealing atypical epigastric pain. Endoscopy revealed large folds diffuse congestion and epithelial hyperplasia mucosecretante.
Biopsy of the snare allows the diagnosis.
The medical treatment is initially (PPI), then surgery because of the high risk of cancer.

3. Radiation gastritis
It develops after radiotherapy for loco-regional malignancy.

4. Gastritis toxic
It is due to alcohol, tobacco and drugs. It is a bile reflux gastritis, developed by the Helicobacter pylori. Treatment is with antibiotics, but there may be recurrences.