ULCERS — PEPTIC – SYMPTOMS AND TREATMENT
Posted on May 15, 2009, under General health.
The lining of the stomach or the duodenum is eroded and an ulcer results. There is some difference in the causes, the symptoms and in the treatment of ulcers in the stomach compared with ulcers in the duodenum, or first part of the small bowel.
In the past, much of the doctor’s time was taken up trying to find where a peptic ulcer was. While these distinctions exist we are less certain that there is really a great deal of difference in either the cause, the symptoms or the treatment.
Ulcers in the stomach, gastric ulcers, may not be peptic ulcers, but may be cancers which ulcerate and mimic a peptic ulceration.
This pain comes and goes throughout the day, and may vary from day to day.
It tends to be easier in the morning, gets worse as the day progresses and may wake the sufferer from sleep.
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