Sudden decrease in appetite?

If we have a good health awareness, we can detect the disease early and find the best treatment method as soon as possible, so as not to delay the disease. Some people suddenly experience a decrease in their appetite. This is mostly due to problems with the digestive function, causing indigestion. It may also be due to bad eating habits, which lead to slower intestinal motility. If the condition is serious, it is best to see a doctor and listen to the doctor's advice.

Indigestion is one of the most common symptoms of diseases in life and can occur at any age. Indigestion is a disease caused by gastric motility disorders, and also includes gastroparesis and esophageal reflux disease with poor gastric motility. The main symptoms are upper abdominal pain or discomfort, including abdominal pain, bloating, early satiety, loss of appetite, nausea and vomiting.

Symptoms of indigestion include:

1. Early satiety, bloating, and belching

Early satiety, abdominal distension, and belching are common symptoms, which may occur alone or in a group, with or without abdominal pain. Early satiety refers to a feeling of fullness shortly after eating, resulting in a significant reduction in food intake. Upper abdominal distension often occurs after meals, or persists and worsens after meals. Early fullness and epigastric distension are frequent with belching.

2. Upper abdominal pain

Upper abdominal pain is also a common symptom. Some patients have upper abdominal pain as the main symptom, with or without other upper abdominal symptoms. Upper abdominal pain is often irregular. In some patients, upper abdominal pain is related to eating, manifesting as fullness pain that is relieved after eating, or as persistent abdominal pain between 0.5-3.0 hours after a meal.

3. Functional dyspepsia

Anyone who has the above-mentioned indigestion symptoms but has no definite organic disease to explain it is called functional dyspepsia. This type of indigestion has the highest incidence and most people have experienced it. The main causes of the disease are related to mental and psychological factors, such as mood swings, sleep status, poor rest, stimulation from tobacco and alcohol, etc. Depending on the symptoms, it can be divided into the following types:

(1) Ulcer-like dyspepsia type, which is characterized by symptoms of peptic ulcer without the presence of ulcer. Recent studies have found that patients who are often faced with stress may have a stress reaction, with intermittent increase in gastric acid excretion. In addition, motility disorders prolong and increase the effect of gastric acid on mucosal damage. Therefore, patients with this type may improve by eating or taking H-receptor antagonists.

(2) Motility disorder-like dyspepsia type, which is characterized by clinical manifestations of gastric retention symptoms. Patients have difficult-to-localize upper abdominal pain or discomfort, which is often caused by eating or aggravated after meals. At the same time, they also have upper abdominal distension after meals, early satiety, nausea or vomiting, and poor appetite.

(3) Specific dyspepsia type: patients with FD symptoms but not meeting the above two groups of characteristic dyspepsia.

(4) Organic dyspepsia: After examination, it can be clearly determined that the dyspepsia symptoms are caused by a disease in a certain organ, such as liver disease, bile duct disease, pancreatic disease, diabetes, etc. For these patients, treatment is mainly targeted at the cause, with auxiliary supplementation of digestive enzymes or improvement of gastric motility to relieve indigestion symptoms.