How long does it take to treat digestive disorders

This question is really unclear. I have been in the gastroenterology department for almost ten years. I have seen transient disorders caused by eating a bad stomach. They adjusted their diet and supplemented with probiotics for two days, and then fully recovered in three to five days. I have also seen chronic irritable bowel syndrome caused by long-term anxiety and disordered work, rest and diet. It took almost a year to finally stop having diarrhea and abdominal pain.

When they are first diagnosed with digestive disorders, many people are anxious to ask how long it will take to get better. In fact, the core depends on where the problem came from and whether you have cooperated with the treatment properly. Last month, a child who had just finished the college entrance examination came to see a doctor. Before the exam, he ate two glasses of iced American food a day to refresh himself, and ate takeaways heavy in oil and salt. Two days after the exam, he started to have diarrhea when eating cold food. His stomach was bloated as if he had an inflated balloon. He was worried that he was terminally ill, so he came in crying. I gave him a gastroscopy and a colonoscopy and found no organic problems. It was a functional disorder caused by long-term irregular eating and high stress before the exam. I prescribed some digestive medicine and probiotics, and told him not to stay up late playing games, and to take a walk for 20 minutes after meals every day. If the ice cream is spicy, he should stop eating it for half a month. As a result, he sent me a message after only ten days and said that he went to eat ice cream with his classmates without any stomach upset, and he recovered very quickly.

But not everyone is so lucky. I followed up an old patient in sales in the past two years. He went to wine shops all year round and never had three meals on time. He was also found to be infected with Helicobacter pylori. When he first started receiving treatment, he didn't pay attention at all. I took the medicine for two days and forgot about it for three days. I couldn't stop drinking. I suffered from recurring stomach pains and acid reflux for more than three months. Later, I finally made up my mind to quit smoking. I also drank as little alcohol as possible. I killed Helicobacter pylori according to the course of treatment. I adjusted my diet for more than two months before I was completely stable. Many people still don’t realize that the intestines and stomach are a typical “emotional organ.” There was a female patient in her thirties who would suffer from diarrhea whenever she quarreled with her husband or worked overtime to catch up on projects. This happened over and over again for almost half a year. Later, she changed her job to a job where she didn’t work much overtime, and she and her husband agreed to communicate well and not quarrel when there were problems. Within two months, the problem of diarrhea stopped recurring.

There are still a lot of controversies on the Internet. Some people say that digestive disorders can be cured by self-care without taking medicine at all. Others say that it can be cured only by taking medicine. In fact, both of these statements are too absolute. If you only occasionally suffer from flatulence after eating too much, or have diarrhea after eating an unclean meal, then you can adjust your diet, eat something light, and take some probiotics. You don't need to take medicine; but if you have abdominal pain, diarrhea, acid reflux, and can't eat for two or three weeks in a row, you must see a doctor for evaluation. If you need to take medicine, it will easily become chronic, and the treatment period will only be longer.

To put it bluntly, the stomach is the most "vengeful" and the most "repaying kindness." If you treat it well, eat regularly and stay up late, don't feed it irritating food all the time, and don't let it suffer emotional pain with you, it will naturally recover quickly. If you take medicine while drinking cold beer, eating hot pot, staying up late and sulking, then it is not uncommon for it to drag on for ten or eight years, not to mention a few months.