Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gastroenterology)

Alcohol in pancreatitis: drink or live?

Most attacks of acute pancreatitis pass quite quickly and do not seem to cause irreparable damage to the pancreas, which produces not only digestive enzymes, but also such important hormones as insulin and glucagon.

Treatment of gastric neurosis

The priority therapeutic factor in providing medical care to patients with gastroneurosis is psychotherapy, which corresponds to the general principles of treatment of neurotic disorders.

Stomach neurosis: signs, how to diagnose?

The complex and varied activity of the digestive organs is innervated by a whole system of nerves, which, entering their walls, are intertwined in a dense network around the glands and smooth muscle tissue, consisting of layers of nerve cells that perceive and regulate the process of digestion of food.

Gastroparesis

The absence of contractions of the stomach muscles leads to food retention in the organ, its rotting, and the formation of pathogenic flora. All this causes pain in the epigastric region, various disorders in the digestive system.

Strong diarrhea with water: what to do, how to stop?

Severe diarrhea is observed periodically in many patients. There are many reasons for this. This phenomenon causes discomfort to a person, reduces the quality of life, limits freedom of action and work capacity.

Why and what does light colored feces mean?

One of the indicators of the state of the digestive system is the color of feces, the normal brown color of which is due to the presence of the final products of the breakdown of unbound bile pigment bilirubin - stercobilinogens (L-urobilinogens).

Dolichosigma in adults and children

Dolichosigma refers to a pathology in which the sigmoid colon and its mesentery acquire abnormal sizes. Dolichosigma is sharply lengthened, disrupting the normal functioning of the body.

Symptoms of gastritis in the stage of exacerbation: erosive, atrophic, antral

Gastritis in the acute stage manifests itself as acute pain in the stomach, nausea, vomiting. Digestion and stool are disturbed, weakness appears.

Exacerbation of chronic gastritis

Exacerbation of gastritis is accompanied by pain, digestive disorders, endocrine glands and the entire intestine. Food cannot be digested normally.

Why is feces hard, balls, lumps and how to soften it?

The act of defecation is the final stage of the digestion process. During it, the body removes processed food that is of no value to the body and harmful substances that have entered it from outside or formed during life.