Symptoms of hiatal hernia

Update Date: 2023-10-01 Source: Network

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When it comes to hiatal hernia, I believe most people know it very well, or even have never heard of it. Hiatal hernia is a kind of internal organ disease, mainly occurs in the stomach, so it is also a digestive system disease. This disease can occur at any age and the higher the age, the higher the incidence rate. The symptom of hiatal hernia, below I tell you.

Symptoms of hiatal hernia

Obstruction: in the early stage of esophageal hiatal hernia, the water in the esophageal wall and the spasm of the esophageal muscle layer will lead to the narrowing of the esophageal cavity, causing obstruction. In addition, advanced esophageal fibrosis can cause cicatricial esophageal stenosis and obstruction. When paraesophageal hernia oppresses the esophagus, it will also lead to esophageal obstruction. The specific manifestations of obstruction are dysphagia, food stagnation, dysphagia and so on.

Respiratory symptoms: when the human body's gastroesophageal abnormal reflux will lead to lung and throat lesions, and when the reflux through the throat sphincter into the human body's throat, it will be inhaled into the trachea and larynx, leading to vocal cord inflammatory polyps, serious will lead to bronchitis, pneumonia and so on. In a few cases, aspiration of foreign bodies in the lung can lead to lung abscess, bronchiectasis and even asthma and other serious diseases.

Upper gastrointestinal bleeding: this symptom is mainly caused by esophageal ulcer and esophagitis. The more one third of the patients do not have obvious esophagitis, but show chronic bleeding and iron deficiency anemia. The upper gastrointestinal bleeding symptoms caused by these conditions will account for about 80%, and the patients occasionally show severe iron deficiency anemia, When diffuse esophagitis or esophageal ulcer occurs, severe hematemesis will occur.

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We should also have understood that hiatal hernia is also very harmful to human health, so when similar symptoms appear in daily life, we must pay attention to it, and it is best to go to the hospital for examination and treatment at the first time.