Pylorospasm in adults: symptoms, what is it?

1 Signs of the disease

Pylorospasm is a disease in which timely removal of food from the stomach into the duodenum is not achieved due to narrowing of the pyloric muscles. There are 2 types of pathological process:

1. Compensated. It is characterized by partial obstruction, when the muscles of the sphincter are severely narrowed.
2. Decompensated. Food does not completely go through a tightly closed sphincter. As a result of such circumstances, the process of decay begins in the stomach.

Pylorospasm can be both congenital and acquired.

Depending on the severity of the disease, the following symptoms appear in a person:

• colic and pain localized in the stomach;
• feeling of belly flaring;
• painful spasms;
• signs of hypovitaminosis;
• body exhaustion;
• weakness in the body;
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• weight loss;
• a large amount of excreted urine after the disappearance of pain;
• clarifying urine and reducing its density;
• severity in the stomach;
• belching, nausea;
• occasionally causes vomiting;
• smell vomit can be putrefactive due to prolonged stagnation of food in the stomach.

Despite the fact that vomiting occurs rarely, after the release of the stomach, a person experiences considerable relief.

With further development of the disease, when vomiting occurs more often, the body lacks salts. This manifests itself in the form of a permanent weakness.

Unlike adults, in young children the congenital form of pylorospasm manifests itself in the form of the following symptoms:

1. Severe vomiting. May occur within a couple of hours after eating. It can go out undigested.
2. There are frequent constipation. Emptying the bladder occurs less often than usual.
3. Appearance of pain and colic that make the child anxious.
4. Insufficient weight gain.

These manifestations in a child may disappear for several days, and then reappear. To make an accurate diagnosis, parents can not do without medical assistance.

2 Examination of the patient

Based on some symptoms, it is impossible to make an accurate diagnosis, because similar manifestations have other diseases.

If you have these symptoms, you need to seek help from a gastroenterologist.

Initially, a general patient survey is conducted, followed by a visual examination of the skin and palpation of the abdomen. Determine the pathology can be with the help of special equipment, including the X-ray apparatus. Radiography of the stomach is carried out using a contrast agent. To remove the spasm in the body, the drug is injected, relaxing the pyloric muscles.

The probe can also be used for diagnostic purposes. At its end, a camera and a lightbulb are fixed, which allows the doctor to see on the monitor spasmodic pyloric section of the stomach and content retention. In addition, the doctor completely examines the mucosa for the presence of other pathologies.

After confirming the presence of pylorospasm, the gastroenterologist tries to find out the main cause that provoked the disease. Based on these data, treatment is also prescribed. Fighting the symptoms of the disease is meaningless. Only by eliminating the cause, one can expect improvement in the patient's condition.