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Gastritis is an inflammation of the gastric mucosa, which has a chronic acute course, caused in most cases by inadequate nutrition. The gastric mucosa is red, has red or bleed images subepithelial. Gastritis can occur in one in various parts of the stomach or cover it completely. How do we know whether and how to treat gastritis?

Causes of Gastritis

Gastritis can occur suddenly (acute) or gradually (chronic). Gastritis can be caused by irritation from alcohol intake, stress, chronic vomiting, and prolonged use of certain medications that contain aspirin, sulfa drugs, iodine, antibiotics or who are prescribed anti-inflammatory.

Gastritis can also be caused by the presence of Heliobacter pylori bacteria that live in the stomach mucosa in some cases if not treated early; it can lead to ulcers and even stomach cancer in some cases. Other culprits are pernicious anemia because it prevents the absorption of vitamin B12 in the stomach, various infections and viruses, autoimmune disorders and bile reflux.
How do I know if I have gastritis?

We should see a doctor and we are likely to perform some tests. Appropriate tests to diagnose gastritis are:

* Stool examination by this test will verify the presence of blood in the stool, since this is a sign of gastritis
* Blood tests are used to check the blood count will confirm if indeed existing anemia due to lack of red blood cells
* Endoscopy involves inserting a camera through exploratory patient’s digestive tract, reaching the stomach and allowing an assessment of the mucosal lining, if required will result in a tissue sample or biopsy for further analysis in the laboratory.

Treatment for gastritis

Treatment for gastritis usually involves the use of heartburn drugs and medications that decrease stomach acid is causing further irritation. The doctor may also include a diet to avoid spicy foods or spicy foods, high fat and limit your intake of drink irritants such as caffeine and alcohol.

In the event that gastritis is caused by a virus, it will be necessary to administer antibiotics to kill the bacteria causing the gastritis will disappear too.
There are many home remedies for gastritis and products of alternative medicine or natural medicine. All medicines for gastritis must be prescribed by a physician, and symptoms of any kind of gastritis usually improve briefly, shortly after starting treatment.

the fountain of youth
the old aphorism says that we are what we eat, and certainly will not misguided.
Depending on the amount and quality of food ingested can cause or prevent, as the case many diseases. At the same time, there are conditions where a particular diet is the key factor to achieve healing.

Each stage of life requires a kind of food, is not the same thing to eat a child than an adult should eat. They have the same nutritional needs two women the same age when one is pregnant and the other not. In short, according to the time of life when we have to take care of what we eat.

Special mention is when we have a disease. In this case, depending on what condition we’re talking about the differences between diets to follow can be very large. Differences such as those between the recommended diet for a sick liver compared with a diabetic needs or obese.

Anyway, if you already have that disease may have arrived late, so we have to avoid falling into the disease because of poor nutrition. If we eat healthy we will be less likely to be diabetic or obese. That’s the key, a healthy and varied diet allows us to reach old age without disease and live longer and better, that is, winning both in quality and quantity of life.
In Spain we can say that we are privileged by both the climate and natural products that give us our sea and our garden. Valencian cuisine, based on the products of the earth is a perfect example of Mediterranean diet often quoted.

Know eating well is the desire of many people but can be a real puzzle if we do not have the skills to do it correctly. Therefore, we must seek the advice of a doctor who will advise on the most appropriate food for their properties and if, unfortunately, already sick dietary guidelines will indicate on your disease.

Data leads Galicia in Spain in the proportion of obese children, almost 30% – and is the third community in adults suffering from the same disease -23% compared with 14.5 of Spain, according to surveys by the explained to Efe managers of the Galician Association of Dieticians and Nutritionists (AGDN).

The president of the association, formed in November 2008, Maria Gonzalez, told Efe that the Galician reality about obesity has the same explanation as in other places, ie in children given an increasingly sedentary leisure fast food, poorly prepared or purchased.

The lack of adequate information, he said, makes the citizens believe that the bread and potatoes are fattening, “and that is not true, because like any other food, fattening if eaten in excess,” and in that sense advocated encourage children “more snacks and fewer give a dollar to buy themselves some sweet pastries.”

Gonzalez, 26, and Vice President AGDN Jose Antonio Lopez, 28, working respectively in the Public Health and in private, but said that among the challenges of the Association is claiming the role for graduates in Dietetics and Nutrition, like them, both in the public health as government programs like “concello healthy.”

Both formed outside Galicia and here the only dietary health degree is the Training module which trains technicians in Dietetics, “who are crowding out some jobs whose skills are, in fact, college graduates, as are developing and evaluating diets, “he said.

The newly formed association has 40 members, is part of the Spanish Association of Dietetics and Nutrition and its objectives, immediate, is promoting the roles of nutritionists, “that are clear to all of society and the administration,” he said, create, as soon as the College of Dietitians and Nutritionists, existing in other 5 regions.

In this sense, Galicia has more than 10 years behind in Catalonia and Navarre “and obesity data sample of Galicia are some areas where we are needed, and disseminate good eating habits, increase physical activity and provide information truthful, and judiciously, “said Lopez.

Meanwhile the president, although it works natural Ourense Hospital Clínico de Santiago de Compostela, said it was “worrying” that the data of childhood obesity in Galicia are only surpassed by the U.S. and UK, the rest of world.

He explained that in Spain begin to organize interventions to alleviate this problem, such as summer camps for obese children “idea imported from the USA and China, similar to the camps for diabetics and other patients.”

According to Gonzalez, one of the keys to act against obesity is that mentalizing is a disease that increases the risk of others, all serious.
The partners and managers AGDN devoted in the coming days, several hours to give lectures all over Galicia, to remember to eat five meals a day, of which 3 must be major and three type “snack” that there that reducing the intake of fried and fat, and you have to eat everything, but in fewer than usual.

The Atlantic diet, like the Mediterranean, according to Lopez, are healthy and balanced, but the first is spoiled by the large amount of food that is linked to the gastronomic traditions of Galicia, and the second is impaired because the Mediterranean coastal settlements incorporate foreign dishes to accommodate foreign tourists.

They also considered a problem “that borders on fraud” that people seeking help to balance your intake “have to be put in the hands of biologists, veterinary colleges and even when such jurisdiction is exclusive of the doctors of Endocrinology and Nutrition and graduates in Dietetics and Nutrition. ”