Gastrointestinal bleeding

Gastrointestinal bleeding is a serious complication of many diseases, which aggravates their course. To find out the reason of this illness if it is not known about a chronic pathology, is inconvenient enough. Having discovered the first signs, it is important in a lasting way to provide assistance and take measures to stop blood loss.

Symptoms of gastrointestinal bleeding

The manifestation of symptoms depends on the activity of the manifestation of hemorrhage. This phenomenon is accompanied by:

• dizziness;
• weakened body;
• a violation of consciousness;
• sweating;
• fainting ;
• nausea;
• decrease in pressure.

A characteristic sign of gastrointestinal bleeding is vomiting, which in its structure is more like a coffee grounds. It contains clots of crimson unchanged blood. Also, the distinctive feature of this ailment is the tarry stool, the presence of blood veins in the feces.

Emergency care for gastrointestinal bleeding

At the first stage, you should calm the patient and put him to bed, making sure that he moves less. While waiting for an ambulance, it is important to follow the following recommendations:

1. An icy compress or a packet of frozen food is applied to the peritoneal region.
2. Also, the patient is allowed to swallow slices of ice or drink ice water.
3. It is necessary to use blood-stopping agents. However, they are administered only intravenously, because internal use due to blood will be ineffective. Aminecaproic acid or Vicasol may be used. When doctors arrive, it is important to notify them in order to prevent an overdose.

Treatment of gastrointestinal bleeding

The degree of damage to the peritoneal organs affects the choice of the treatment method, which is performed either conservatively or surgically.

To stop bleeding is important in an emergency do the operation. Before her, blood loss is filled up by administering blood products. Operative intervention can be carried out both endoscopically, and traditional open. In the course of surgical intervention, the veins of the stomach and esophagus are bandaged, resection of selected areas of the intestine or stomach is performed and sigmists are applied.

Conservative treatment based on such events:

• introduction of hemostatic drugs ;
• evacuation of blood;
• replenishment of blood loss;
• The fight against the disease that provoked this bleeding.