What symptom does child gastritis have?

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Gastritis refers to a disease in which one or several harmful factors, including physical, chemical or biological factors, act on the gastric mucosa to produce inflammatory changes. In China, the prevalence of gastritis in children varies from 45.1% to 84%, which may be related to different regions or different criteria for selecting cases. But it can be seen that infantile gastritis has become a common disease of pediatric digestive system diseases. What symptom does child gastritis have? I'd like to share my views with you.

What symptom does child gastritis have?

1. Acute gastritis often has epigastric pain, nausea, belching, vomiting and anorexia, and its clinical manifestations often vary in severity. Gastritis caused by drugs and stress factors, often only for hematemesis and black stool, generally a small amount, intermittent, can stop, but also bleeding. It may be accompanied by dehydration, electrolyte disorder and shock. Bacterial infection was accompanied by systemic toxic symptoms or acute enteritis.

2. The clinical manifestations of chronic gastritis in children are not specific, and the younger the age is, the less typical the symptoms are. Most of them have recurrent epigastric or periumbilical pain. Some of them are not fixed. They often appear in the process of eating or after meals. The mild ones are intermittent dull pain or dull pain, and the severe ones are severe colic, often accompanied by vomiting.

3. Other symptoms include upper abdominal fullness, nausea, anorexia with acid reflux, heating, etc. hematemesis and melena are rare. Often because of cold food, hard food, spicy or other irritating food cause symptoms or make symptoms worse. Bleeding is also one of its symptoms, especially with erosion, can be repeated small amount of bleeding, can also be massive bleeding. Small infants can also show chronic diarrhea and malnutrition. During the examination, there may be tenderness in the upper abdomen or no obvious signs. A few children have emaciation and anemia.

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Children should develop good eating habits from an early age, do not discharge food, partial food, not too hungry or too full; Don't eat too much cold drink; Don't leave your mouth with snacks or candy. Otherwise, it is easy to cause gastrointestinal dysfunction and gastric mucosal resistance decline and suffer from chronic gastritis.