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In medical terms gastritis is called “peptic acid” and is caused by an injury to the mucosa of the stomach that is caused by a progressive increase of gastric acid, can be caused by many factors, but including snuff consumption is perhaps the more important.

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. (more…)

Gastritis is an acute or chronic inflammation of the lining of the stomach.

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) (more…)