Common Cause of Gastroparesis, Diabetes

Diabetes is the leading cause of gastric emptying or gastroparesis. This is because high blood sugar levels veroorzaakt chemical changes in nerves, including the vagus nerve, the movement of food through the digestive tract control. High blood sugar damages blood vessels that carry oxygen and nutrients to the nerves, which further impairs their functioning.

If the vagus nerve is damaged, then the passage of food into the stomach through the digestive system slows down or stops. People generally suffer from a variety of symptoms of gastroparesis, so that the disease difficult to diagnose. Frequency and severity of symptoms vary greatly from person to person. The most common symptoms are:

    * Heartburn
    * Nausea
    * Abdominal pain
    * Anorexia
    * Swelling
    * Cramps
    * Weight Loss
    * Vomiting of undigested food
    * Feeling of fullness after eating small amounts *
    * From GERD
    * High or low levels of blood sugar

Undigested food in your stomach can harden into solid masses called bezoars. Bezoars nausea and vomiting, is not only dangerous when they block the passage of food through the small intestine. Ferment undigested food, allowing the growth of bacteria.

Gastroparesis may complicate control of diabetes is type 1 and type 2 diabetes, delaying the food in the stomach to the intestine. This step irregular food through the digestive tract results in blood sugars irregular and unpredictable. When the food finally absorbed the blood sugar levels suddenly increase.

As a result, diabetics with gastroparesis should check your blood sugar frequently. They may need to take insulin, insulin or insulin after a meal, rather than continue to change before entering the right side of insulin.

Gastroparesis is usually a chronic disease. Although there is no cure, can be treated. People with gastroparesis are advised to eat six small meals a day instead of three large meals, and difficult to avoid the long fibers and fatty foods and soft drinks. In severe cases, a liquid diet or tube feeding.

Patients often have a dopamine antagonist such as domperidone prescription gastroparesis. Domperidone (Motilium generic) is the condition of gastroparesis and symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, bloating and a feeling of "full". Some patients require antibiotics.

There is no reason to hope for patients with gastroparesis. Possible treatments are the first stages of gastric electrical stimulation, the use of experimental drugs and botulinum toxin.

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