What medicine is good for treating digestive disorders?

In fact, there is no "best" medicine for everyone. The key to choosing medicine is to match your current core symptoms and triggers. If it is not symptomatic, no matter how expensive the Internet celebrity stomach medicine is, it will be useless, and it may even mess up the gastrointestinal function that is only temporarily imbalanced.

A while ago, my best friend stayed up late for a week working on a project, relying on iced milk tea with crayfish to stay alive. First, she had diarrhea for three days, which she stopped after taking montmorillonite for two days. Then she became so bloated that she couldn't eat, and her burps had a sour smell. She went to the gastroenterology department to see a doctor she was familiar with. She was told that it was a gastrointestinal motility disorder caused by cold and cold stimulation and disordered work and rest. She was prescribed trimebutine, which regulates gastrointestinal motility in two directions, for a week, along with probiotics containing Clostridium butyricum. She basically felt comfortable after taking it for three days.

When it comes to probiotics, someone must ask, isn’t this an IQ tax? I have heard two completely opposite opinions before. Some people said it was all a scam after taking it for two days without any use, while others used targeted supplements to cure chronic diarrhea that had lasted for several months. In fact, the key depends on what caused the disorder. If you have just taken antibiotics and destroyed the normal flora in the intestinal tract, or if you have an imbalance of flora caused by long-term irregular diet, it is indeed useful to choose a strain that corresponds to the indication. However, if you only occasionally eat too much and get bloated, then taking probiotics is not as effective as taking two prokinetic pills, so there is no need to waste money.

If you have been feeling like you have been unable to digest a little food recently, and you often suffer from acid reflux and burping, without stomach pain or black stools, it is mostly due to slow gastric motility, which can be relieved by taking some motility drugs such as Mosapride, but if you are nervous or rush to meet deadlines If you have a stomachache and need to go to the toilet, it is most likely irritable bowel syndrome. In this case, many people take Western medicine, which can only temporarily suppress the symptoms. There are also many people who consult traditional Chinese medicine doctors to prescribe Chinese patent medicines such as Shenlingbaizhu powder, Shugan and Weiwan. Slowly adjusting the symptoms will lead to fewer recurrences. Of course, some people think that Chinese medicine is too slow to take effect and is not as effective as taking Western medicine. This depends on your own acceptance and specific physical condition.

I have fallen into the trap of taking random medicines before. In the past two years, I always felt my stomach was cold and bloated, so I followed the trend and bought a certain "magic medicine for nourishing the stomach" that was popular on the Internet. After taking it for half a month, I was so bloated that I couldn't sleep at night. Later, I found out that I had acid reflux. That medicine was for people with insufficient gastric acid secretion. It was not symptomatic at all, and I suffered for half a month in vain.

By the way, there is another premise that needs to be made clear. If, in addition to common symptoms of disorder such as bloating and diarrhea, you also have stomach pain, black stools, and rapid weight loss in a short period of time, don’t think about taking medicine to treat yourself. Go for a gastroscopy and colonoscopy first to rule out organic problems such as ulcers and polyps, so as not to make the serious illness worse. And after all, the medicine is only for emergency use. If you take medicine and stuff spicy ice into your stomach every day, and stay up until two or three o'clock every day, no matter how amazing the medicine is, it can't save your messed up stomach. My best friend now doesn't dare to drink iced milk tea. She always keeps soda crackers in her bag, and she takes a few bites when she's hungry. She hasn't had any digestive disorders in the past half year.