What medicine should be taken to treat digestive disorders?

There is no unified specific medicine for digestive disorders. You have to choose one according to the specific symptoms. Many mild cases even require no medicine at all and can be alleviated by adjusting your work, rest and diet.

Last week I treated a little girl who was an Internet operator in 1999. She stayed up late every day to catch up on the Double 11 plan. She suffered from abdominal distension and hiccups when she was nervous, and also had constipation and diarrhea in turns. She checked the gastroscopy and colonoscopy and found nothing wrong. It was a typical functional disorder. She ate almost two boxes of Jianweixiaoshi tablets at home, but it didn't work. Finally, she was prescribed medicine as needed, and after two weeks of adjustment, she was much better.

If you usually have acid reflux after eating, and your chest feels as if you have a hot briquette, you will usually use acid suppressants such as omeprazole. However, there is also a lot of controversy in the industry. There is a school of thought that this kind of medicine is fine for short-term use. However, if you take it for more than one month, it may affect the balance of intestinal flora and reduce the level of intestinal flora. Regarding low calcium absorption, I met an aunt before. She took omeprazole for more than half a year. Later, she not only suffered from leg cramps due to calcium deficiency, but also suffered from diarrhea. It took almost three months to stop taking the medicine and adjust it. It took almost three months to recover. Therefore, this kind of medicine is generally taken as needed. If you take it for two or three days, stop when the symptoms subside. Do not take it as a tonic by yourself every day.

If your main problem is that you feel full after just two mouthfuls, your stomach is bloated like a ball, you can breathe smoothly after burping, and you feel bitter after eating something greasy, then you can try prokinetic drugs with digestive enzymes, which is equivalent to lubricating the stomach that cannot move, and hire a temporary helper. Those indigestible fats and glutinous rice products can be decomposed almost without grinding by the stomach and intestines. You can stop when your appetite comes up and the bloating subsides, and you don’t need to eat them for a long time.

Speaking of which, I have to mention the probiotics that everyone is most familiar with. This one is really A's honey and B's arsenic. It is very controversial. Some people took a certain probiotic and their flatulence disappeared immediately. Some people took it and their stomach became more bloated. Last week, a young man came to me and said that probiotics were said to treat disorders on the Internet, so he bought two of them. I have been taking the expensive one for two months, but my symptoms have not improved at all. In fact, the current research on probiotics has not reached the level of "one thousand people can benefit from it". Everyone's intestinal flora is very different. If you want to try it, choose a strain with clear clinical evidence. If it doesn't work for half a month to a month, stop immediately. Don't waste money.

There is also a group of people who get stomachaches when they are nervous or eat cold food, either constipation or diarrhea. After a colonoscopy, there are no organic problems. They are irritable bowel digestive disorders. When the pain is severe, you can take some pinaverium bromide. It is not an ordinary painkiller, but it smoothes out the smooth muscle of the intestinal wall that contracts randomly. There is no dependence and no major side effects.

But after all, medicines are always auxiliary. I have seen too many patients who were prescribed all the right medicines, but they stayed up until two or three o'clock every day, eating iced milk tea and spicy hot pot. The medicines were useless no matter how long they were taken. It was like inflating a broken tire while driving nails into it, but it was never full. The little girl who was born in 1999 stopped taking the medicine after two weeks. She has mostly corrected her habit of staying up late. She takes 20 minutes to go downstairs for a walk every day and drinks less iced coffee. Now she has not done it again for almost three months.