While we often take medication for gastritis every time we have a stomach ache, did you know that…
a significant number of patients “die” just from epigastric burning pain
So how can you keep trusting this? Come for an endoscopy to check for sure… it’s better for you.
Epigastric burning pain… what diseases can cause it?
- Acute myocardial infarction: Patients will experience palpitations, dizziness… and sudden heart failure can occur.
- Perforated stomach ulcer: Patients will have sudden, severe epigastric pain!!
- Stomach cancer: Patients initially have symptoms similar to gastritis… and start vomiting or passing blood in stool several months later.
- Gallstones: Patients will have cramping, intermittent epigastric pain, often triggered after eating fatty foods.
- Liver disease: Patients will have loss of appetite, weight loss, jaundice, and a palpable mass under the right rib cage.
Signs of symptoms… that indicate you must see a doctor!!!
- Continuous pain lasting several hours or days
- Severe pain or cramping pain
- Feeling palpitations or fainting
- Loss of appetite and weight loss
- Vomiting or passing blood in stool
- Taking medication for gastritis with no improvement
- Palpable mass in the abdomen
- Pale complexion, jaundice
If taking medication for gastritis does not relieve the epigastric burning pain, it’s time!! You should undergo an endoscopy to diagnose the cause in detail because who knows? Suddenly having stomach pain could end up being a serious disease!!!
