What causes stomach ulcers? Detailed answer

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What causes stomach ulcers?

About 10-12 percent of people in Europe and America suffer from stomach or intestinal ulcers at some time in their lives. What is an ulcer and what causes it?

The digestive juice produced in the stomach contains hydrochloric acid, mucus, and an enzyme called pepsin. Pepsin breaks down the protein in food into simpler substances. But sometimes a mixture of pepsin and acid can affect the walls of the digestive tract, resulting in ulcers. They usually occur on the walls of the stomach. Usually, people who develop such ulcers in the stomach or intestines have a concentration of hydrochloric acid above the normal level.

There are other reasons that ulcers appear or the process of treating an already formed ulcer is difficult. So, nervous, ambitious people are much more prone to peptic ulcer disease than calm people. Smoking also makes ulcers worse or harder to treat. Rough food is also not conducive to healing. But in general, this disease can appear in anyone at any age (although very rarely before the age of ten years).

Men get sick four times more often than women. How do you know if you have an ulcer? Pain will tell you! Pain may appear 30-60 minutes after eating. Such pains rarely occur in the morning, but usually they appear after lunch and dinner. They can also start at night, after midnight.

Stomach pain usually comes from eating. When a person has a peptic ulcer, the doctor recommends a diet consisting of soft foods with a lot of dairy products, and advises him to get plenty of rest, not to be nervous, and to avoid various fears.

Author: Likum A.

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