Every year, people suffering from diseases of the digestive system become more and more. In addition, "adult" diseases have increasingly become apparent in young children. This fact is due to the fact that in the race for new taste sensations, food manufacturers began to add harmful chemical additives to the manufactured products that negatively affect the gastric mucosa. That is why gastritis in a child today occurs several times more often than it was a couple of decades ago.
The occurrence of such a disease requires special attention from parents, because in the absence of proper treatment at first, the baby's condition can worsen right before our eyes.
Gastritis in a child can occur both in acute and in chronic form. Depending on this, the pediatrician chooses a further course of treatment, which is aimed at reducing inflammation and irritation of the mucous membrane.
The signs of gastritis in children, proceeding in an acute form, differ significantly from the symptoms observed in chronic disease. With timely contact with a pediatrician who is required to prescribe adequate treatment, the likelihood of a complete and quick recovery is very high.
Unfortunately,
chronic gastritis in a child can not be cured even by the most effective means. But in order to avoid a period of exacerbation, it is necessary to adhere to a wholesome and healthy diet, and also regularly observed by a pediatrician.
Depending on the severity of the disease, the depth of mucosal lesions and the severity of pain vary significantly. In addition, if you do not treat this disease for a long time, more intense symptoms of gastritis in children join the irritation of the walls of the digestive organ:
- frequent nausea (even if the child did not eat fatty foods);
- vomiting
- general malaise (weakness, drowsiness, lethargy);
- dry mouth, and sometimes increased salivation ;
- low blood pressure;
- slightly elevated body temperature;
- rapid pulse;
- whitish-gray coating on the tongue.
Often, when the described symptoms occur, parents do not even suspect that their child has an exacerbation of gastritis. Having decided that the baby has a cold or poisoned with poor-quality food, many people independently take a number of measures to eliminate these symptoms.
That is why every parent should know that exacerbated gastritis in a child is necessarily accompanied by pain in the abdomen, as well as the severity and bloating characteristic of this disease after eating.
If these symptoms occur, you should immediately consult a pediatrician, as complications of a superficial disease of the stomach can affect the functioning of the cardiovascular system. In addition, untimely cured erosive gastritis in the future can cause perforation of the walls of the stomach and even internal bleeding.