What is acute gastric dilatation?

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Acute gastric distention refers to the stomach and duodenum in a short period of time a large number of contents can not be discharged, and the occurrence of extreme expansion, leading to repeated vomiting, and then water electrolyte disorders, and even shock, death. This disease often occurs after operation, and can also be caused by overeating. Both children and adults have the disease, most of them are male.

What is acute gastric dilatation?

It can directly stimulate the body or visceral nerve, cause the autonomic nervous dysfunction of the stomach, inhibit the reflex of the gastric wall, cause the relaxation of gastric smooth muscle, and then form gastric dilatation; The occurrence of acute gastric distention is related to the strong stimulation of celiac nerve plexus in patients with upper abdominal contusion or severe combined injury; During anesthesia, endotracheal intubation, postoperative oxygen and nasogastric tube feeding can also produce a large amount of gas into the stomach, resulting in gastric dilatation.

The following diseases can cause the disease: gastric volvulus, incarcerated hiatal hernia, duodenal Yongji disease, etc; Spinal deformity, annular pancreas and pancreatic cancer are the outlet of the stomach; Plaster cast syndrome caused by plaster cast on the body; Emotional tension, severe pain and depression lead to autonomic nervous dysfunction, resulting in decreased gastric tension or delayed gastric emptying; The application of anticholinergic drugs, central nervous system injury and uremia can affect gastric tension and gastric emptying.

If the treatment of acute gastric distention is not timely, the mortality rate can be as high as 60%. After major abdominal operation, gastrointestinal decompression was used to prevent it. Long term fatigue, hunger, should be a small number of meals, gradually adapt to avoid overeating, to prevent acute gastric distention also has a role.

matters needing attention

Eat less fried food: because this kind of food is not easy to digest, will increase the burden of the digestive tract, eat more will cause indigestion, but also increase blood lipids, adverse to health. Eat less raw and cold food, stimulating food: raw and cold food and strong stimulating food have strong stimulating effect on gastrointestinal mucosa, easy to cause diarrhea or gastrointestinal inflammation.