Recognising the Symptoms of Stomach Ulcers

When you feel that burning feeling in your abdomen and the pain from the burning travels up to your neck and down to your navel through to your back then ou are suffering from stomach ulcers. Yes, they are nasty, and they last from a few minutes to a few hours; now learn to recognise the symptoms so that you can get treated early.

Ulcers developing in the stomach or small intestines are known as peptic ulcers and can also be called gastric ulcers if it is in the stomach. You can get ulcers because of bad lifestyle choices and excess amount of stomach acids. The majority of these ulcers are caused by the bacterium named Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) and the symptoms are acute for some people while they are mild for others. The symptoms of ulcers will surely show, but at times they can be asymptomatic, which means that a patient may be suffering from an ulcer without any tell tale signs or symptoms.

For those who may experience symptoms, here are some of the symptoms of stomach ulcers that you should look out for.

The Gastric Resemblance

One of the most common signs of stomach ulcers is that it resembles gastric, but it is quite different at the same time. The peptic ulcer in your stomach occurs due to stomach acids and you will experience this problem usually in the abdomen or in the duodenum, and ulcers in the duodenum are most common. The harmful bacteria damage the defending tissues of your stomach or bowel and when this lining gets destroyed the stomach acid attacks out stomach freely. Acid actually irritates your stomach’s lining. Then with the passage of time ulcer begins to appear.

Recognising the Pain

You need to be mindful of the type of pain that you are experiencing. Stomach ulcers can give you pain in the abdomen anywhere between the breastbone and your belly button. This pain as we have mentioned before can last anywhere from a couple of minutes to several hours. This pain mainly occurs in between meals as your stomach would be empty. It could feel like as a burning, stabbing or even aching pain.

The Relief from Pain

This pain that is caused due to ulcers can often be temporarily taken care of if you eat foods that tend to buffer the acid in your stomach, or it could also help if you took over the counter antacid medication. But, always make sure to take professional help when you are trying to purchase over the counter medicines.

Flare Ups

There is a possibility for you to experience flare-ups at night and whenever you are hungry. This can definitely make you feel very uncomfortable, so make sure that you look up for a solution in order to put a pause on this.

There are some other lesser common symptoms of stomach ulcer, and those are as follows:

•  Indigestion
•  Heart burn
•  Loss of appetite
•  Feeling unwell and getting sick

You are definitely advised to consult your physician when you get any of these above symptoms. Also, in cases of extreme emergency such as if you are vomiting blood, passing black stools and a sudden and sharp pain in your stomach becomes steadily more painful, you must get help immediately.

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