Diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gastroenterology)

Help with food poisoning

Help with food poisoning should be provided as soon as possible, depending on the speed of timely and competent actions, not only does the health of the victim depend, but also his life.

Symptoms of food poisoning depend on the amount of low-quality products or toxic substances that have entered the gastrointestinal tract, the type of toxin or the type of pathogen that causes toxic infections.

Treating food poisoning

Treatment of food poisoning should be timely, that is, the earlier the procedures begin, the less toxins will have time to enter the bloodstream and spread throughout the body.

Food poisoning in the child

Food poisoning in a child is a toxicoinfection caused more often by food with microbial contents. Intoxication in children is much more intense, heavier than in adult patients, as many of the child's digestive functions are just beginning to form.

Intestinal insufficiency

Intestinal insufficiency, or enterargy - a combined violation of the motor, secretory, digestive and absorbing functions of the small intestine.

Enterocolitis

Among diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, enterocolitis is the most common. With this disorder, the inflammatory process in the small and large intestines simultaneously develops.

Pancreatitis in the elderly

The most common acute pancreatitis occurs elderly and less often - in old age with increased pressure in the pancreatic ducts, which leads to damage to the acinous cells and their membranes with the release of pancreatic enzymes into the parenchyma, interlobular connective and adipose tissue of the pancreas.

Gastritis in the elderly

Gastritis in the elderly is less pronounced than in young people, although the disease is more severe: it is often accompanied by a sharp deterioration of the condition, severe intoxication, symptoms of cardiovascular insufficiency up to the collapse. Complaints and a clinical picture of a chronic gastritis at people of elderly and senile age are less expressive, than at young, quite often proceeds latently.

Peptic ulcer in the elderly

Peptic ulcer disease in the elderly is a common disease. Persons over the age of 60 constitute between 10 and 25% of all patients suffering from peptic ulcer disease. If young and elderly patients suffer mainly peptic ulcer, then in the elderly, there is an increase in the incidence among women, and after 70 pet differences in the incidence of the disease in men and women practically disappear.

Diseases of the digestive system in the elderly

Features of diseases of the digestive system, as well as other organs and systems of the aging organism, are determined to a large extent by a complex of age-related morphological changes in the gastrointestinal tract and are manifested, mainly, and atrophic processes.

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