Your digestive system is considered to be an intricate and an extensive part of your body. It is seen to range from the mouth until the rectum. Your digestive system aids the body to further absorb the essential nutrients...
What are Digestion Problems?
Your digestive system is considered to be an intricate and an extensive part of your body. It is seen to range from the mouth until the rectum.
Your digestive system aids the body to further absorb the essential nutrients and thus, it is responsible for eliminating the waste.
Key Facts:
- Healthy diet of the person helps the individual to protect against any malnutrition in different forms, as well any non-communicable diseases (NCDs), including diabetes, heart disease, stroke and cancer.
- Unhealthy diet along with a lack of physical activity is the leading global risks to health.
- The digestion problems could also mean more than the unwanted symptoms. Minor problems that are left untreated could lead to a more serious, and chronic illnesses.
As there are known to be different types of digestion problems, you might also mistakenly dismiss them.
Thus, its utmost important to further understand any common digestion problems — along with emergency symptoms — so as to contact your healthcare professional at times of need.
Some of them are as follows:
- Diarrhea
- Constipation
- Unintential Weight Loss
- Gastrointestinal Bleeding
- Inflammatory bowel disease
- GERD
- Indigestion
- Ulcer disease
Gastro esophageal Reflux disease
- It results from many physiologic defects.
- For example- Reduced lower esophageal sphincter can contribute to reflux in scleroderma and pregnancy and maybe a factor.
- Reductions in the esophageal motility and salivary secretion prolong the fluid exposure.
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Ulcer Disease
In most GERD, there is no injury to the esophagus. However, 5% develop esophageal ulcers, some develop strictures.
This can further cause Gastrointestinal Bleeding in the affected patients
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Malignancy
- Dyspeptic patients often seek care because of the fear of cancer, but few cases result from malignancy.
- 8 to 20% of the GERD patients exhibit intestinal esophageal intestinal metaplasia termed as Barett’s metaplasia.
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Chronic constipation
Chronic constipation indicates an issue with eliminating your waste. This would often occur when your colon faces difficulty in passing the stools through your remaining digestive tract.
Abdominal pain and bloating might be the symptoms experienced as well along with fewer bowel movements (which are more painful than usual).
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IBS - Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome
In this, the symptoms may include abdominal pain, which might occur before and after the bowel movements.
The patients may also experience symptoms of diarrhea and constipation.
Other symptoms might include the following:
- Bloating
- Presence of white mucus in stool
- The incomplete bowel movements
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Crohn’s disease
The Crohn’s disease is known to be type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). It is seen to cause any chronic inflammation of the GI tract, mostly seen in the small intestines.
Symptoms seen are as follows:
- Chronic Diarrhea
- Unexplained/ Sudden Weight Loss
- Acute Stomach Pain
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Diarrhea
Diarrhea is when there are loose or watery stools for three or even more times in a day. Diarrhea may be acute, persistent, or chronic.
The Acute diarrhea is known to be more common than persistent or chronic diarrhea. The complications of the diarrhea disease are further dehydration and malabsorption.
Lactose Intolerance
In case, one has lactose intolerance, digestive symptoms—for example: bloating, diarrhea, and gas—after one consumes the foods or the drink that could contain lactose.
The Lactose intolerance might affect the health if and prevent you from absorbing the nutrients, example- calcium and vitamin D.
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Gas in the Digestive Tract
The gas which is present inside your digestive tract is known to be made of air and other gases.
Gas would typically leave the digestive tract through either your mouth or through the anus when one passes this gas.
Other causes
Opportunistic fungal or viral esophageal infections would produce heartburn but more often cause odynophagia (Burning sensation or pain while swallowing)
Prevention Tips from Ganesh Diagnostic and Imaging Center
How to keep your digestive system healthy. Some tips mentioned here are as follows:
- Do Not Smoke
- Maintain Your Weight
- Consume A Balanced, And Healthy Diet.
- To Exercise Regularly
- Reduce Stress
Contact- Dr. Ravin Sharma, (MBBS, MD in Radiology)
Available: 24*7*365
Phone Number: +919212125996
Why Ganesh Diagnostic and Imaging Centre should be your preference to screen you for Digestive Disorders?
At Ganesh Diagnostic and Imaging Centre, we are known for providing excellent service and care to its patients for decades. Lakhs of satisfied patients over the years!
It is an established and renowned diagnostic centre since 2001.
Their excellence is backed by NABH and NABL Accreditations.
NABH accreditation is proof of highest standard of care and service provided to the patients. NABL accreditation reflects the competency of laboratories and equipment based on some national and international standards.
Test report is available digitally too.
Ganesh Diagnostic and Imaging Centre is a one-stop solution for getting all kinds of tests done, as all services are available under one roof.
The aim of GDIC is to provide the world’s finest technology at the lowest price.
We are based in Delhi NCR Region, and our branches are in the following regions:
Yamuna Vihar, Mangol Puri, Budh Vihar, Model Town, Hari Nagar, Nangloi
The rates of scans are reasonably priced. Ganesh Diagnostic and Imaging Centre also offer FLAT 50% OFF on many tests.
References:
- https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/healthy-diet
- Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 20 th edition, Volume 1 https://www.health.harvard.edu/topics/digestive-health
- https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/digestive-diseases/gas-digestive-tract
- https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/list-of-digestive-disorders#diagnosis
Note from Ganesh Diagnostic & Imaging Center
- Early checkups are always better than delayed ones. Safety, precaution & care are depicted in the several health checkups at our center.
- Here, at Ganesh Diagnostic and Imagining Center, we present simple & comprehensive health packages for any kind of testing to ensure the early prescribed treatment to safeguard your health.
- So, visit us at the earliest to ensure good health and to maintain an active immune system.
