How long does it take to treat digestive disorders and what medicine to take

There is no unified recovery timetable. Mild cases can be basically relieved by adjusting lifestyle habits and taking symptomatic medication in 1-2 weeks. If the disease lasts for more than half a year, is accompanied by obvious anxiety, or has poor eating habits all year round, it may take more than 3 months. A few people who are repeatedly stimulated may even delay for several years. There is no standard answer for medication. It all depends on the specific symptoms and triggers. There is no magic medicine that can cure all digestive disorders.

I met a young man who works as an Internet operator a while ago. He went on a big sale for a month, ate takeout and drank iced Coke, and stayed up until two or three o'clock every day. During that time, he suffered from abdominal bloating, nausea after eating, and occasionally constipation. After a gastroscopy and colonoscopy, he found no organic problems. This is a typical digestive disorder. , I prescribed him the gastric motility drug Mosapride for a week, mixed with some ordinary medicinal probiotics, and told him to eat 70% full at every meal, walk two stops from work before taking the subway, and not to browse his mobile phone before going to bed until he was hungry and eat late-night snacks. As a result, he came over to say hello on the 8th day and said that the uncomfortable feeling was basically gone.

Not everyone can be so smooth. There is also a little girl in high school who is about to take the college entrance examination. She is so stressed that she suffers from abdominal pain and diarrhea whenever she eats something cold or before taking the exam. She has been suffering from abdominal pain and diarrhea for almost a year. Her parents always gave her antidiarrheal and anti-inflammatory drugs, which made her sometimes constipated and sometimes diarrhoea. She lost a lot of weight when she came here. This kind of irritable bowel syndrome (also a type of digestive disorder) caused by emotional stress cannot just focus on the gastrointestinal treatment. In addition to symptomatic use of pinaverium bromide to regulate the movement of intestinal smooth muscles, psychological counseling should also be provided to prevent her from always focusing on her stomach. After more than three months of adjustment, the frequency of attacks gradually decreased.

When it comes to medication, many people’s first reaction is to take probiotic supplements. In fact, there are different views on this in the industry. Some doctors believe that digestive disorders are mostly accompanied by dysbiosis. No matter what type of probiotics, there is no harm in supplementing them and can help restore the intestinal environment. However, many clinical studies have shown that if there is no clear evidence of dysbiosis (such as just taking antibiotics or long-term diarrhea leading to imbalance of flora), the effect of ordinary patients with functional disorders on probiotics and placebo is not much different. There is no need to spend hundreds of dollars to buy probiotics imported from Internet celebrities and pay IQ tax.

In fact, the digestive function is like that old fan in your house. Occasionally, if it gets stuck, add some oil and move it to a ventilated place, and it will spin smoothly quickly. If you put it in the dust pile every day and turn it on to the highest gear for half a month, even if it is repaired, it will easily break again. Many people always ask how long it will take to get better. On the contrary, the more anxious they are, the more it affects the gastrointestinal nerves, making recovery slower. It is better to change the bad habits first, follow the doctor's instructions and take medicine, eat when you should eat and sleep when you need to, but you will feel better without knowing it. Oh, by the way, there is another common pitfall that I would like to remind you. Don’t take antibiotics like norfloxacin when you have a stomachache. Most digestive disorders are not caused by bacterial infection. Taking antibiotics indiscriminately will kill the beneficial bacteria and slow down the recovery.