What is gastritis?

Gastritis is a collective term forsigns of various kinds of inflammatory and dystrophic diseases of the gastric mucosa. Gastritis is one of the most common diseases not only in Russia, but all over the world, and in most cases, the ailment is chronic, and it is almost impossible to cure it permanently and irrevocably. In this article I'll tell you more about what gastritis is.

Causes of gastritis

The difficulty of treating gastritis isIn particular, it is difficult to understand what the cause of the disease is, and to completely eliminate the problem, as you know, you need to treat the cause, not the consequences. The most popular causes of gastritis are:

Activity of the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, as well as other harmful bacteria and fungi;
Disturbances in nutrition, including bad habits (smoking, alcohol) and lack of vitamins;
Metabolic disease;
Taking medications that negatively affect the mucosa;
Stress;
Effects on the body of chemicals and radiation;
Infestation with parasites;
Genetic predisposition;
Infectious diseases.

And this, we note, only the most popular causes of gastritis, there are others, including those not yet identified.

Development of gastritis

For one of the listed reasons, the mucosathe shell of the stomach is irritated and "calls" for help cells of the immune system, whose task is to remove pathogenic substances from the body. The cells of the immune system begin a "war", which manifests itself as an inflammatory process. Thus, the inflammatory process with gastritis is not just the effects of irritation of the mucosa, but also the desire of the body to bring "order".

Treatment of gastritis

Of course, as you understand, treatment in many waysdepends on the cause of gastritis, each drug prescribed by the doctor, solves its problem, but whatever the reason, with gastritis, a strict diet is prescribed, which excludes from the diet, first of all, fat and spicy food.