Esophagitis - treatment

Esophagitis is an inflammation of the mucosa of the esophagus. This disease occurs quite often and it is accompanied by other diseases of the digestive tract. Ezofagitis can occur at any age, but most often the disease occurs in people who lead an incorrect lifestyle.

Causes and Symptoms

The causes of the disease can be external and internal factors:

• irritation of the esophagus by chemical factors (alcohol, spicy food, acids and alkalis, iodine);
• irritation of the esophagus by thermal factors (hot food and drink);
• weakness of the cardia - a constituent of the esophagus, which does not allow food from the stomach to enter the esophagus;
• chronic and infectious diseases (tuberculosis, diphtheria, influenza).

There are many varieties of esophagitis: it can be chronic or acute, allergic, stagnant, infectious, catarrhal, edematous, necrotic, phlegmonous, etc.

In accordance with the type of disease, the symptoms are also isolated, but there is also a general symptomatology:

• heartburn and chest pain;
• belching with air;
• nausea, vomiting;
• smack of sour in the mouth;
• cough and shortness of breath;
• burning at the top of the abdomen .

How to treat esophagitis?

How to treat esophagitis, the attending physician decides, but in any case the diagnosis is first carried out, which includes laboratory, roentgenological studies, esophagoscopy. Treatment of esophagitis with medicines, in the treatment of chronic esophagitis in some cases, shown surgical intervention. In the treatment of erosive esophagitis, a special diet is used. Those who encountered this disease know how to treat reflux esophagitis: you need to exclude hot, sour, hot, fatty foods, alcoholic and carbonated drinks.

Treatment of esophagitis with folk remedies

The people's treatment of esophagitis is, first of all, herbal treatment. At low acidity, plantain juice can be used. Also relieves pain and leads to recovery reception of infusions from ayr, cumin. Good for esophagitis syrup from a dandelion. Treatment of ulcerative esophagitis can be carried out with thyme , infused with white wine. If you need to remove the sharp pain, you need to swallow 2-3 peas of black pepper and drink "pills" with water. This technique can not lead to recovery, pepper will only relieve acute pain.

Before you begin self-treatment, it is still worth consulting with a doctor, since wrong treatment can lead to irreversible consequences.