Quick tips for people suffering from ulcers

Quick Tips for People Suffering From Ulcers

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   Make an appointment with your doctor. While most stomach ulcers will heal on their own, some severe stomach ulcers will needed to be diagnosed and treated with an endoscope. An endoscope is a small, lighted tube that is fitted down your esophagus. Only your doctor can perform this. In the meantime, try some of these quick fixes before you see your practitioner.
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   Take an acid-blocking medication. An acid-blocking medication is sometimes recommended by doctors to see if symptoms improve. That is because stomach ulcers can be caused by an imbalance between the digestive fluids in the stomach and duodenum.

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   Make certain lifestyle changes.Stop smoking, drinking, and taking NSAIDs. Smoking and drinking can both cause imbalances in digestive fluids, while NSAIDs can disrupt the balance if taken in high dosages. Discontinue all three while you are waiting for a diagnosis from your doctor.
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   Don't drink milk. Drinking milk may provide temporary relief, but it's like taking one step forward and two steps back. Milk will coat the lining of your stomach wall for a short while. But milk will also stimulate the production of more stomach acid, which ultimately aggravate the ulcers even more.
   • bacteria, doctors used to tell patients to control their ulcers through diet and lifestyle changes. Although we now know that the bacteria causes most ulcers, it is still true that lifestyle and diet can aggravate symptoms. Diligently managing stress through practices like prayer, yoga or meditation, getting plenty of exercise and eating a healthy, well-balanced diet that is low in fat and spices will help to control ulcer symptoms for some people.
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   • Another common cause of ulcers is the mucus membranes of the body being too thin and more susceptible to a "break" in this protective coating. This "break" exposes the stomach wall to the acids the mucus membrane was protecting against. There are many prescription and OTC drugs that will thin the mucus membranes over time. Aspirin is one. NSAIDS are more. Some synthetic blood thinners will do this as well.
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   • If left untreated, ulcers can eat into the wall of the stomach or intestines, causing internal bleeding, perforations or obstruction of the digestive system.
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   • The following factors can increase your chances of having peptic ulcers: alcohol and tobacco use, use of aspirin, ibuprofen, or other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), high stress levels, and radiation treatments. All of these have been shown to "thin out" the body's mucus membranes including the lining of the stomach.