Brief Description
Peptic ulcer is a medical condition in which there is damage in the inner wall of the stomach and small intestine causing bleeding or vomiting blood. Peptic ulcer is sometimes referred to as stomach or gastric ulcer, but it also include the esophageal ulcer and duodenal ulcer. In fact, the most common peptic ulcer is duodenal ulcer that occurs in the first portion of the small intestine (duodenum).
The most common symptom is the upper or middle abdominal pain due to the stomach acid inflames the damaged or ulcer area causing burning sensation or pain. The pain may be relieved by eating food, or vomiting, or the pain may appear a couple hours after meal. There is chest pain or heartburn if it is the esophageal ulcer. As it progresses, there may be nausea & vomiting, hematemesis (vomiting blood), and melena (dark blood stools when the bleeding is continuous).
Please go to see your doctor for diagnosis and treatments if you have above symptoms.
Symptoms & Signs
| Age | |
|---|---|
| Gender/sex | |
| Abdominal Pain ~ feeling | Chronic pain with past history, Heartburn feeling, severe abdominal pain |
| Abdominal Pain ~ duration | |
| Abdominal Pain ~ location | Upper & Middle upper abdominal pain, Upper & Upper left abdominal pain |
| Abdominal pain & Meal | |
| Abdominal pain & Body position | |
| Nausea & Vomiting | |
| Blood in stool | |
| Weight loss |
