Atrophic gastritis is one of the more common stomach diseases, as a chronic disease on the stomach is extremely harmful, after the disease can easily lead to thinning of the gastric mucosa, in this case gastric acid will continue to hurt the stomach, and will also affect the digestion and absorption capacity.
Once "targeted" by atrophic gastritis, we must go to a regular hospital in time for examination, and then treat the symptoms according to the actual condition of the individual.
Can atrophic gastritis develop into stomach cancer?
Stomach diseases are particularly harmful to the patient's body, although not all stomach diseases can develop into stomach cancer, but for patients with atrophic gastritis, it is still necessary to actively prevent the emergence of gastric cancer diseases.
Once the disease is developed, it is easy to lead to intestinal metaplasia and dysplasia of the intestinal epithelium, and these two lesions are also key factors that induce the emergence of gastric cancer diseases.
From a clinical point of view, the development of gastritis from atrophic gastritis to stomach cancer may take at least a few years or more than a decade.
What are the causes of atrophic gastritis?
1. Helicobacter pylori infection
Many people have Helicobacter pylori in the stomach and intestines, this germ is recognized as a carcinogen, there are many factors that lead to the appearance of Helicobacter pylori in the body, in addition to unhygienic diet, it may also be good "meal system" is closely related.
Helicobacter pylori is one of the main causes of chronic gastritis and stomach cancer, so we should actively remove Helicobacter pylori in the body under the advice of a doctor, so as to prevent the emergence of chronic atrophic stomach disease, and then prevent gastric cancer.
2. Lack of vitamins
Although vitamins are essential nutrients, but the lack of vitamins in the body may not cause cancer, the reason why many stomach cancer patients have a serious lack of vitamins in the body, the reason is that they usually eat vegetables or vegetables and fruits and other high-vitamin foods in their diet.
In addition, patients with atrophic gastritis will have a serious lack of folic acid, vitamin C and vitamin B12 in the body, which may become one of the important causes of stomach cancer.
3. Bile reflux
Bile reflux is one of the more common diseases, and if you usually drink heavily, smoke, or eat unhealthily, it can lead to this disease.
The reason is that bile is a kind of body fluid that assists digestion, once the bile reflux will affect the digestive capacity, and then cause adverse harm to the health of the stomach, and the bile salts in the bile followed by bile acid, can reduce the activity of gastric mucosal protective enzymes, and over time will induce chronic gastritis.
4. Immune factors
People with defective immune systems are also easy to become a high incidence of atrophic gastritis, from a medical point of view, once the immunity declines, it is easy to induce some diseases;
Gastric mucosal damage is one of the more common diseases, especially for people who like to eat spicy and stimulating food to be quiet, the degree of damage to the gastric mucosa will be more serious, which is also a key factor inducing atrophic gastritis disease.
The causes and harms of atrophic gastritis are introduced above, although not all patients with atrophic gastritis will develop stomach cancer, but if they are not treated in time and effectively after the disease, the probability of stomach cancer will continue to increase.
Therefore, we must pay more attention to protecting the health of the stomach and intestines, and once there is atrophic gastritis, we should actively treat it, only in this way can we avoid the emergence of tumor diseases such as gastric cancer.