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Stomach Health Knowledge
Structure of the Stomach
The stomach is the most dilatable portion of the alimentary canal. It lies mainly in the epigastric region of the abdomen, and partly in the left hypochondriac and umbilical region. It consists of an upper part, the fundus, the main body, and a lower horizontal part, the pyloric antrum. It communicates with the oesophagus by means of the cardiac orifice or cardia and with the duodenum by the pyloric orifice. The stomach lies below the diaphragm, in front of the pancreas, and the spleen lies against the left side of the fundus.
The stomach consists of four coats:
1. The outer peritoneal coat, which is a serous covering.
2. A muscular coat, which is in three layers,
a. longitudinal fibres, which lie superficially and are continuous with the muscle of the oesophagus,
b. circular fibres, which are thickest at the pylorus where they form the sphincter muscle, and lie beneath the first layer, and
c. Oblique fibres, which are found chiefly at the fundus of the stomach and pass from the cardiac orifice and sweep downwards over the lesser curvature.
3. A sub – mucous coat of areolar tissue contains the blood vessels and lymphatics.
4. A mucous coat, the inner membrane, is thick and soft, and is arranges in corrugated fold, rugae, which disappear when the organ is distended by food.
Stomach's Disease
The so-called gastric disease, in fact permits the sickly general designation. They have the similar symptom, after like on abdomen stomach cavity department ill, ache, food, full, belches, returns to the acid, even disgusting, vomit and so on. On the clinical common gastric disease has the acute gastritis, the chronic gastritis, the gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, stomach duodenum compound ulcer, the stomach polyp, the stomach stone, stomach's good malignant tumor, but also has the gastric mucosa to escape hangs sickness, the acute dilatatio ventriculi, the pyloric stenosis and so on.
In addition, some neighbor internal organs' disease may also cause “gastric disease” performance, like cholecystitus, gallstones, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and so on.
Generally speaking, on clinical said gastric disease is to sickness in the stomach, displays in stomach's disease's general term, certainly simultaneously also includes the duodenum disease, like duodenal ulcer and so on.
Stomach's Disease 10 Kinds of Common Symptoms
Stomach Pain: Sometimes before meals pain, after sometimes food pain, some people in the late at night stomach ache. The stomach ache feeling is not possibly a severe pain, but is the dull pain, the tenderness or is the stuffy pain, stomach ache spot below heart spot to stomach between.
Gastrectasis: Feels the stomach to swell, food indigestion, or has the inflation feeling, the appetite stops up, food cannot get down.
Stomach acid: The hyperacidity, the counter-acid, has the gastric juice frequently the feeling which pan-or is full from the stomach.
Heartburn: The gastric mucosa hyperemia, the hyperacidity, will create the heartburn the feeling, mainly will be the feeling which the stomach scalding hot, will have a fever.
Disgusting vomit: The chronic gastritis patient often has disgusting and so on symptoms, particularly chronic atrophy gastritis, the disgusting vomit displays prominently.
The stomach is cold: Many gastric disease patients do not dare to eat cold, cool food, as soon as or the weather changes cold, the temperature drops, stomach on ache, having diarrhea.
Having a poor appetite: Without the appetite, cannot eat up, or sees food, wants to eat does not dare to eat. Listless, was mad that the chromatic aberration, the sleep are bad: Gastric disease patient often looks unwell, daytime does not have the spirit, evening rests not fragrant, the working efficiency drops, loses the confidence to the life, loses the interest to many things.
Becoming emaciated: Some gastric disease patient, felt that the appetite is alright, can also eat meal, but is the human becomes emaciated day-by-day, the body weight drops, this is mainly gastric disease causes stomach's digestion function to drop, in addition intestinal tract malabsorption, although has eaten, but does not have the full absorption result.
The halitosis, the tongue coating become dark: The gastric disease patient common halitosis, the mouth, the tongue coating becomes dark painstakingly and so on symptoms, simultaneously is accompanied by symptoms and so on stomach ache gastrectasis.