Many things can become the cause of gastritis, some of them are infection, irritation, and autoimun reaction. Infection can happen whether it's from bacteria, or viruses. Irritation can happen by many things, like medicine, alcohol, stomach acid over excretion, chronic puking, and eat toxin.

Erosiva gastritis usually caused by chronic illness, or from medicine. Stress, ethanol, bill dilution, Non-Steroidal Anti inflammatory Drug (NSAID) disturb stomach mucosa barrier, so it's easy to injure. With normal stomach acid. Infection from H.pylori cause peptic ulcer disease (PUD). H.Pylori make a colony inmost layer which is from stomach mucosa and disturb the function as the protector. NSAID and aspirin also disturb mucosa layer protector by the way of pursues cyclooxygenase mucosa, reduces rate of prostaglandin mucosa. Many people that have H.pylori in his/her body and consumes medicine not happening gastritis or PUD so concluded there is another important factor also contributes.

Symptom

Gastritis can be happening without symptoms. If there is a symptom, it depends on the cause. There is a lot of gastritis case, reducing the stomach acid with help of medicine is very useful. Antibiotic used to eliminates infection. The use of medicines that can irritate stomach must be stopped. Another curative also needed if there is complication or another cause from gastritis.

Definition

Gastritis is inflammation ( swollen) of stomach mucosa including erosive gastritis, which Is caused by irritation, gall bladder, pancreas liquid reflux, haemorrhagic gastritis, infectious gastritis, and stomach athrophy mucosa.

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