Quite often people, feeling an unpleasant sensation in the mouth, heartburn, burning and heaviness in the stomach, write off this condition for overeating or stale food. However, as practice shows, recently in connection with many aggressive factors of the external environment, these phenomena have a different character and they can be caused by the disease with esophagitis.
What is esophagitis?
Disease esophagitis is an inflammation of the esophagus. It is due to the ingestion of undigested gastric contents into the esophagus. This disease is accompanied by the displacement of some part of the stomach in the chest cavity. The most common cause of this ailment is the formation of a hernia in the esophageal aperture of the diaphragm.
In medicine, there are such types of esophagitis:
- acute;
- chronic;
- peptic;
- catarrhal ;
- erosive;
- distal;
- reflux esophagitis.
Common symptoms of esophagitis
It should be noted that the signs of esophagitis are often similar to manifestations of other diseases of the internal organs, which suggest a completely different treatment. The most pronounced common symptoms for esophagitis are:
- severe heartburn, as well as chest pain that occurs more often after eating or in the position on the back;
- Strain pain and pressure in the stomach and when swallowing;
- a feeling of nausea after eating and vomiting, sometimes even with veins of blood;
- dry cough at night.
These signs in a patient with esophagitis can manifest simultaneously, and only a few can. Heartburn is the most common sign of this disease. It occurs in 85% of cases. It increases with malnutrition, the use of carbonated drinks and alcohol, heartburn may worsen. Also, heartburn can occur after prolonged physical exertion, with tilts and in the horizontal position.
Symptoms of other types of esophagitis
As a rule, the symptoms of acute esophagitis have such manifestations: general malaise, fever, burning in the neck, eructation, excessive salivation. Also, the patient may be concerned about discomfort when swallowing and when passing food along the esophagus.
Chronic esophagitis has such symptoms:
- pain in the chest;
- nausea;
- pain in the side and in the stomach.
Quite often a patient with this diagnosis also has gastritis. A feeling of pressure can be tormented by fast walking and running. Often with a chronic form of the disease, hiccough, vomiting and difficulty in breathing are observed.
With esophagitis 1 degree, the main symptoms are manifested as a violation of swallowing, the feeling of a coma in the throat, pain localized in the ear and lower jaw, cramping pain in the chest that grows especially fast with exercise. Also this form of the disease can be accompanied by chronic cough, hoarseness, inflammatory processes in the airways, pneumonia, tooth decay, increased fragility of nails, hair.
Symptoms of erosive esophagitis -
Treatment of esophagitis
Before the treatment of esophagitis, it is necessary first of all to eliminate its original cause - gastritis, neurosis, peptic ulcer or gastroduodenitis. Therapy includes the use of medicines and compliance with a special diet. With the disappearance of signs of an illness, you can not stop treatment. All procedures and recommendations prescribed by a doctor must be followed and brought to an end, otherwise the symptoms of esophagitis will manifest again.