Acute Gastritis
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• Anorexia, epigastric fullness, nausea.
• Diarrhoea, colic, haematemesis, fever, chills, head- ache and malaise are common when caused due to toxins or infections.
• Epigastric tenderness present.
• Endoscopy differentiates acute simple gastritis from
erosive gastritis, peptic ulcer or a mucosal laceration (Mallory-Weiss syndrome).
Treatment:-
-Bed rest.
-Bland soft diet.
-Mucaine gel or digene gel 2 tsf thrice daily after meals.
-Tab PANTAPRAZOLE 40 mg twice daily or Somprazole or rantac 150 mg
20 mg twice daily.(before food)
-Syrup.Sucrofil /Mucaine gel 2tsp tid after food
-Tab Probanthine twice daily.
-Tab Sucralfate 1 gm tds if NSAIDs induced
erosions.
-Specific antidotes for corrosive poisons.
-Treat infective cause if any
