What is the best medicine to treat digestive disorders

In fact, there is no universal magic medicine that is “best”. Digestive dysfunction is not a single disease. It is a collective term for disorders of gastric and intestinal motility and secretion. You must choose medicine based on your core symptoms to achieve the fastest results.

A while ago, I met a young girl who works as an e-commerce operator. She endured a big sale for half a month, eating iced coffee and heavy snacks for takeout. Later, she would either not have diarrhea for three or four days, or she would have diarrhea when she ate something cold. Her stomach always hurt, so she first took montmorillonite powder to stop diarrhea. , it happened again after stopping, and the swelling got worse. After a checkup, there was no organic problem, just an irritable bowel syndrome-type functional disorder. She was prescribed pinaverium bromide combined with Clostridium butyricum for two weeks, and asked her to stop ice drinking first. Within two weeks, she said her symptoms had basically disappeared.

Many people think that gastric motility drugs are the first choice for conditioning. In fact, this is just the right symptom for them - if your main problem is congestion after eating, not digesting for two or three hours, always belching, acid reflux, and loss of appetite, then motility drugs such as mosapride and domperidone can really relieve the feeling of congestion after taking it for a day or two, and the effect is obvious. If your core problem is excessive stomach acid and constant heartburn and mouth pain, then acid-suppressing omeprazole and pantoprazole are more effective than anything else. There are also people who have disrupted their intestinal flora after taking antibiotics for a long time, causing diarrhea or bloating, so any probiotic and acid-suppressing drugs they take are in vain. It is only effective to supplement probiotics such as Bifidobacterium and Clostridium butyricum and slowly adjust them back.

Many people also think that digestive disorders can be cured by adjusting their diet and rest without taking medicine at all. This is actually half right and half wrong. If this is the first time you have symptoms, and it has only been about a week, you can really stop taking medicine in a hurry, stop eating cold, spicy, heavy oil and salt foods, stay up late and don't worry blindly, and walk for half an hour every day. Many people can get better on their own. But if it has been delayed for a month or two and has repeatedly affected eating and sleeping, then if you insist on not taking medicine, it will easily become chronic and more difficult to adjust.

There was a retired uncle who always felt bloating and acid reflux after eating. He took omeprazole at home for almost half a year, but it was of no use. When he came to check, he found out that he was positive for Helicobacter pylori. After killing the bacteria for half a month, all the symptoms disappeared. The acid-suppressing medicine he had taken for so long was not symptomatic. There are also many people who believe in Chinese patent medicines, such as Xiangsha Yangwei Pills and Shenling Baizhu Powder, which are very effective as long as they are symptomatic. For example, if you are usually afraid of cold, and you will suffer from stomachache and diarrhea when you eat something cold, which belongs to the spleen and stomach deficiency, taking Shenling Baizhu Powder may be more comfortable than taking Western medicine. However, if you usually have dry mouth, bitter mouth, constipation, bad breath, or severe stomach fire, taking these warm Chinese patent medicines will actually aggravate the symptoms.

By the way, I want to say one more thing. If, in addition to common symptoms such as bloating, diarrhea and constipation, you also lose weight, have black stools, and the pain becomes more and more severe, don’t take random medicines on your own. Go for a gastrointestinal endoscopy to rule out organic problems first. Don’t treat ulcers, polyps, or even more serious problems as ordinary functional disorders.