Can cold weather affect stomach trouble?

The weather is getting colder in autumn and winter, and the number of patients with stomach diseases is increasing. This side is specially prepared for you:

What diseases does stomach disease include?

The so-called stomach disease is actually a general term for many diseases. They have similar symptoms, such as epigastric discomfort, pain, fullness after meals, belching, acid reflux, and even nausea and vomiting. Clinical common stomach diseases include acute gastritis, chronic gastritis, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, gastroduodenal compound ulcer, gastric polyp, gastrolith, benign and malignant tumors of the stomach, gastric mucosal prolapse, acute gastric dilatation, pyloric obstruction and so on.

In addition, some diseases of neighboring organs can also cause "stomach diseases", such as cholecystitis, gallstones, chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and so on.

Generally speaking, the stomach disease referred to in clinic is the general name of diseases that occur in the stomach and manifest in the stomach, and of course it also includes duodenal diseases, such as duodenal ulcer.

Causes of increased gastric acid secretion

The reasons for the increase of gastric acid secretion mainly include the following aspects:

(1) Physical factors related to heredity.

(2) Gastric mucosal parietal cells are stimulated and excited for a long time, such as: ① parasympathetic nerves are excited for a long time and continuously produce acetylcholine. ② The gastrin secreted by gastrin cells (G cells) is too high, such as G cells' slow response to the inhibition of H+ (hydrogen ions); Gastric antrum mucosa is in contact with protein decomposition products, and the increase of gastrin causes gastric antrum swelling.

(3) The reactivity or total number of parietal cells increased. Even if the total number of parietal cells is normal, high gastric acid secretion can damage mucosa.

(4) When the function of releasing some hormones from duodenal mucosa decreases, the secretion of gastric acid and gastrin can also increase.

It can be seen that the overall increase of gastric mucosal wall cells and neuroendocrine dysfunction are the main factors causing the increase of gastric acid secretion, and are also the basis for the formation of duodenal ulcer.

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