What are the symptoms and treatments of gastroptosis

Gastroptosis is a relatively common stomach disease. If it is not treated well, it will cause great harm to the patient. Gastroptosis often manifests as upper abdominal discomfort, a feeling of oppression and heaviness, abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting, and constipation. It must be treated in time, and there are many treatment methods, including Western medicine, Chinese medicine, and so on.

Symptoms

1. Abdominal distension and upper abdominal discomfort

Patients often report a feeling of fullness, heaviness, and pressure in the abdomen.

2. Abdominal pain

Most of the pain is persistent. It often occurs after meals and is related to food intake. The more you eat, the longer the pain lasts and the more severe the pain is. At the same time, pain is related to activity, and activity after meals often makes the pain worse.

3. Nausea and vomiting

It often occurs after meals or during activities, especially when eating too much. This is because taking in a large amount of food at one time increases the traction of the stomach wall ligaments and causes pain, followed by nausea and vomiting.

4. Constipation

Constipation is often stubborn and may be caused by the sagging of the transverse colon, which causes the hepatic flexure and splenic flexure of the colon to form an acute angle, resulting in slow passage.

5. Neuropsychiatric symptoms

Because the various symptoms of gastroptosis torment patients for a long time, they put too much mental burden on them, resulting in neuropsychiatric symptoms such as insomnia, headache, dizziness, dullness, and depression. Symptoms may also include hypotension, palpitations, and syncope upon standing.

treat

1. Western medicine treatment

Upper abdominal discomfort, dull pain, indigestion, etc. can be treated by referring to the treatment of chronic gastritis. For patients with abdominal distension and slow gastric emptying, metoclopramide or metoclopramide can be given. Mosapride tablets are the first choice for those with combined constipation. Try ATP treatment, intramuscular injection half an hour before breakfast and lunch every day, 25 days as a course of treatment, and then have a second course after an interval of 5 days. Place a gastric support if necessary.

2. Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment

(1) For ear acupuncture, use the handle of a filiform needle to press the "gastrointestinal area" of the ear shell to find the sensitive point. Apply pressure on this point for 2 to 3 minutes, once a day.

(2) Moxibustion: Qihai, Guanyuan, Zusanli, Weishu and other acupoints.

(3) Qigong supine breathing method: The patient lies on his back with his buttocks raised appropriately or the bed legs raised by 5 cm. He inhales first and then exhales, pauses and closes, and repeats.