What is the difference between gastric ulcer and gastric erosion

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Stomach disease is the most common disease, accompanied by a variety of diseases, and today here, we will tell you some about the difference between gastric ulcer and gastric erosion.

What is the difference between gastric ulcer and gastric erosion

First: ulcer disease is a common chronic systemic disease, which is divided into gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, also known as peptic ulcer. It is called peptic ulcer because it was previously thought that gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer were formed by the digestion of gastric acid and pepsin on the mucosa itself, while gastric erosion is only a common erosive gastritis.

Second: relative to gastric erosion, gastric ulcer is a chronic disease, and easy to relapse, to make it completely healed, we must adhere to long-term medication. Do not stop taking medicine suddenly when the symptoms are slightly improved, or change to another medicine after taking one medicine for a few days.

Third: in principle, in order to protect the stomach and balance the whole body nutrition, patients should eat nutritious and vitamin rich food, and the coarse and hard materials should be prepared into easily digestible food. Eat less meals, food should not be too hot and too cold, and should try to chew, too hot food will make blood vessels dilation, easy to cause gastric bleeding.

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But no matter how to say, whether it is gastric ulcer or gastric erosion, if not treated, it will eventually become a very serious stomach disease, so it is suggested that we should treat it in time.