Gastritis

Clinic

• Gastritis is an entity containing inflammation of the lining of stomach
• There are three subtypes
  1. Erosive gastritis: Stress, alcohol, some drugs (Aspirin and other NSAIDs) and Crohn's disease
  2. Non-erosive gastritis: Helicobacter pylori infection
  3. Atrophic Gastritis

• Complications may include stomach bleeding, stomach ulcers, and stomach tumors.

Old school categorization

1. Simple gastritis (catarrhal), which is the most common form of gastritis
2. Crusive or destructive gastritis: when the patient has drunk strong acidic or alkaline substances
3. Phlegmatous gastritis: thickening of the stomach wall + leukocyte infiltration in the stomach tissue
4. Fibrinous gastritis: Infiltration of fibrin in the stomach following scarlet fever or other infections

2 Sign / Symptoms

• The most common symptom is upper abdominal pain (Dyspepsia).
• Other possible symptoms include nausea and vomiting, bloating, loss of appetite and heartburn.

• Vomiting (may be clear, green or yellow, blood-streaked or completely bloody depending on the severity of the stomach inflammation)
• Belching (does not usually relieve stomach pain if present)
• Bloating, Early satiety, Loss of appetite
• Unexplained weight loss
• When due to autoimmune problems, low red blood cells due to not enough vitamin B12 may occur, a condition known as pernicious anemia.

3 Causes

Its Common causes are Helicobacter pylori and NSAIDs

Less common causes include

• Alcohol, smoking, cocaine, severe illness, radiation therapy
• Autoimmune problems such as Autoimune gasritis and Crohn's disease.

4 Gastritis vs gastropathy

• Both are conditions that affect the stomach lining, also known as the mucosa.
• In gastritis, the stomach lining is inflamed.
• In gastropathy, the stomach lining is damaged, but little or no inflammation is present

5 Gastritis vs Gastroparesis

• Gastritis is strictly a histological or tissue diagnosis of inflammation of the stomach inner lining which may or may not manifest symptomatically.
• Gastroparesis defines a symptomatic delay in stomach emptying resulting in bloating, abdominal pain and sometimes vomiting.

6 Gastritis vs Gastric ulcer

• Gastritis is irritation and inflammation of the stomach lining. This means the lining is red and swollen. It can cause shallow sores in the stomach lining called erosions.
• An ulcer is a deeper open sore in the lining of the stomach.

7 Maisms

• Gastroparesis: PLV
• Gasteropathy , Gastric atrophy, Gastric metaplasia, Gastric cancer: EBV
• Acute gasritis ,Gasric ulcer, Gastric erosion: HSV-1, HSV-2, DHF, EBV, CMV

Repertory

• Cold drink agg: Acon, Bry, Coloc
• Acute

1. Ars, Phos
2. Ant-t, Bell, Hydr, Ip, Kali-bi, Nux-v, Ox-ac

• Alcoholic drinks: Nux-v

Related disease

• Dyspepsia
• GERD

Tissue Salt Remedies

• FP
• NP
• MP
• KS