In daily life, there are many people who often have some stomach discomfort. Once these problems arise, most people will treat it as gastritis. And when these discomforts recur, some drugs for gastritis will be taken appropriately.
However, it is worth noting that in the early stages of stomach cancer, patients also experience a series of symptoms similar to gastritis. If it is not detected and treated early, it will soon develop into the middle and late stages, putting the patient's life at serious risk. So, what are the specific manifestations of early stomach cancer?
What are the specific symptoms of early stage gastric cancer?
1. Digestive function becomes slower
Although the early symptoms of stomach cancer are very mild, this does not mean that there are no symptoms in the early stage of gastric cancer. When a tumor appears in the stomach, although the tumor is small and does not strongly stimulate the gastric mucosa, the patient's digestive function will be affected.
No matter how much food you eat every day, it is difficult to digest quickly and smoothly after entering the stomach, and the digestive function becomes very slow. It will cause patients to often have a series of symptoms such as acid reflux, constant hiccups, and stomach bloating. Although these symptoms are similar to gastritis, they occur repeatedly without any regularity.
2. Repeated epigastric pain
When suffering from gastritis, the patient's epigastric position may also appear painful, but this pain will be related to factors such as diet, mood, and cold. As long as a series of adjustments are made and some drugs are used appropriately, the abdominal pain will soon disappear.
When suffering from stomach cancer, this pain will appear inexplicably and has nothing to do with any factors. When this pain occurs, no food or medication can relieve it.
This early feeling of early pain is intermittent, occurs suddenly and resolves on its own. However, as the disease progresses, this epigastric pain will become more and more severe until it develops into persistent pain.
3. Fullness after meals
Fullness after a meal is a more obvious symptom in the early stages after suffering from stomach cancer. The patient's gastric mucosa has been damaged, after eating some food, the gastric mucosa will be stimulated accordingly, it is easy to appear bloating pain and discomfort.
And because the digestive function becomes slower, after the food enters the stomach, it cannot be absorbed and digested, and it will accumulate in the stomach, resulting in a significant feeling of fullness after meals.
4. The color of the stool turns black
In the early stages of gastric cancer, most patients will have some ulcerated surfaces in the gastric mucosa. When a stomach tumor appears, it will cause these ulcerated surfaces to be stimulated, and bleeding is likely to occur.
However, because it is in the early stage, the amount of bleeding is relatively small, and this blood will enter the intestine with the digestive tract. In the intestines will be oxidized to black, then the patient will have black stools when defecating, and patients will discharge tarry black stools.
5. Body wasting
Although patients with early stage stomach cancer do not have a particularly pronounced feeling of discomfort, stomach function has been abnormal. The absorption function of nutrients in food will also decrease, resulting in a lack of nutrients in the body.
Patients will begin to gradually lose weight, and will also be accompanied by frequent palpitations, dizziness, palpitations, fatigue and other anemia problems.
All in all, if the above 5 symptoms appear in daily life, it is necessary to cause a high degree of vigilance, which is most likely related to the early stage of stomach cancer. Although these symptoms are not particularly pronounced, they are repetitive and characterized by persistent exacerbations.
Then the patient should be quickly admitted to the hospital for gastroscopy and other examinations. If it is determined that it is stomach cancer, only early scientific treatment can maximize the maintenance of stomach health.