Chronic gastritis "can be big or small"! Three types of complications should be vigilant

For medical professionals only

Because many modern people have unhealthy lifestyle and eating habits, chronic gastritis has become a very common digestive disease, and people around them are more or less "bad stomach"
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Chronic gastritis, which sounds "harmless", is actually accompanied by these three "dangerous" complications
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Can be big or small, not to be ignored!

One

Common clinical symptoms

Most are nonspecific, but some are symptomatic, including the following:

• Epigastric pain, bloating, early satiety, belching and other dyspeptic manifestations;

• Anxiety, depression and other mental and psychological symptoms;

• Psychological factors can aggravate gastrointestinal symptoms, but the severity is not completely consistent with endoscopic findings and histopathological grade;

• Autoimmune gastritis can lack typical clinical symptoms for a long time, and the first symptoms are often anemia and vitamin _B12 deficiency caused by neurological symptoms
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Two

Three major complications cannot be ignored!

1.
Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: Chronic gastritis accompanied by gastric mucosal erosion can appear melena, and even hematemesis
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2.
Stomach cancer:

• Chronic gastritis, especially with persistent infection with Helicobacter pylori (Hp), a small number of patients can gradually appear atrophy, intestinal metaplasia, dysplasia, and have a certain risk
  of gastric cancer.
  

• Gastric body-based atrophic gastritis, especially in severe cases, significantly increases the risk of gastric cancer
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3.
Peptic ulcer:

• Gastric antrum-based gastritis, often has a high level of gastric acid secretion, prone to duodenal ulcer

• Gastritis, gastric body-predominant, decreased gastric mucosal barrier function, increased likelihood of gastric ulcer development
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