Is gastric ulcer serious?

Gastrointestinal diseases can be said to be a common disease among modern people, and gastric ulcer is the most important gastrointestinal disease for most people. The onset of gastric ulcer will cause pain and loss of appetite to patients. Some serious patients may even experience nausea and vomiting. If not treated in time, gastric ulcer may even become cancerous. It can be said that hair loss is a very harmful disease.

So how serious is gastric ulcer? In fact, gastric ulcer will cause pain at the beginning. If your condition does not improve after taking anti-ulcer drugs, then you need more scientific treatment, especially when the following situations occur, you must receive necessary treatment.

One of the serious consequences of gastric ulcer is malignant transformation into cancer. Be alert if the following situations occur.

1. Changes in the nature and regularity of pain. The pain of gastric ulcer is mostly manifested as dull pain in the upper abdomen, burning or dull pain, and the onset of pain is related to eating, usually occurring within 1 to 2 hours after a meal and then gradually subsiding. If the pain loses the above regularity and becomes irregular, or becomes a persistent dull pain, or the nature of the pain has changed significantly compared to the past, you should be alert to the precursors of cancer.

2. Anti-ulcer drugs are ineffective. Although gastric ulcers are prone to recurring, the symptoms can usually be relieved by taking anti-ulcer drugs on a regular basis. If the effects of routine anti-ulcer medication become less apparent or even ineffective after a period of treatment, it should be suspected to be a precursor to cancer.

3. If a patient with progressive weight loss experiences loss of appetite, nausea, vomiting, fever and progressive weight loss in a short period of time, the possibility of cancer is very high.

4. Vomiting blood and black stools Patients often vomit blood or have tarry stools in the recent period, the results of fecal occult blood test are continuously positive, and severe anemia occurs. These phenomena all indicate that gastric ulcer may be turning into cancer.

5. Abdominal masses appear. Patients with gastric ulcers generally do not develop abdominal masses, but if cancer occurs, the ulcer will become larger and harder. Patients in the late stage can feel a mass in the upper left abdomen. The mass is hard, nodular, rough, and painful to press.

In general, gastric ulcers are very harmful to the life and health of patients. Therefore, if you find that you have gastric ulcers in your daily life, you must treat them in time. In addition, you must actively prevent gastric ulcers and other related gastrointestinal diseases in your daily life to better promote your physical health.