What is Gastritis: Symptoms, Causes and Complications

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What is gastritis?

• Gastritis is a condition of the stomach where the
  inner lining becomes inflamed. Gastric- refers to
  stomach and itis- refers to inflammation. When
  the inflammation occurs suddenly and lasts for a
  shorter duration it is called acute gastritis.
  When the inflammation develops gradually over a
  long period of time, it is called chronic
  gastritis. Heres we will talk about Signs And
  Symptoms of Gastritis and also get Treatment and
  diagnosis of gastritis in this article.

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What Causes Gastritis? Understand The Reasons
For Gastritis

• What Causes Gastritis? Understand The Reasons
  For Gastritis
• Excessive use of painkillers
• Excessive use of alcohol
• Stressful event
• Old age
• Autoimmune reaction

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How to diagnose gastritis?

• The doctor would take a detailed history to
  understand your signs and symptoms for gastritis.
  With history he might suspect a diagnosis of
  gastritis and to confirm the diagnosis he might
  ask for one or more of the following tests
  Diagnosis

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What is the treatment of gastritis?

• Avoiding frequent use of painkillers like
  NSAIDs. Taking medicines that protect your
  stomach or reduces acid production along with
  NSAIDs. Switching to alternative medicines for
  NSAIDs.

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