Functional gastrointestinal disease is a common disease. Because the symptoms of functional gastrointestinal disease are often confused with other gastrointestinal diseases, many people are difficult to achieve ideal results when taking symptomatic treatment. So, what is functional gastrointestinal disease? In the face of such diseases, how can we improve?

　　What is functional gastrointestinal disease

　　The so-called functional gastrointestinal disease refers to a group of gastrointestinal diseases with digestive system symptoms, but organic changes are not found in biochemical, imaging and endoscopic examinations, or organic diseases cannot explain the symptoms. In short, it is not the digestive tract itself that causes gastrointestinal discomfort, but the abnormal function of the digestive tract.

　　According to the statistics of digestive specialty, the incidence rate of this disease in China is about 18% - 45%. It accounts for 30% - 40% of the total digestive outpatient department. Although the pathogenesis of functional gastrointestinal disease is not fully understood, the medical community believes that brain gut axis disorder may be the pathophysiological basis of its pathogenesis. It may not be intuitive to introduce the concept. Next, we will take some common diseases as examples to help you understand functional gastrointestinal diseases.

　　Common functional gastrointestinal diseases

　　Functional dyspepsia

　　Functional dyspepsia is probably the most common functional gastrointestinal disease. It often shows discomfort symptoms such as epigastric pain, epigastric distension, early satiety, belching, anorexia, nausea and vomiting.

　　Functional dyspepsia is clinically divided into two subtypes, namely epigastric pain syndrome and postprandial discomfort syndrome. The symptoms of epigastric pain syndrome are epigastric pain or burning sensation, while the symptoms of postprandial discomfort syndrome are postprandial fullness discomfort or early satiety, which may overlap.

　　Functional dyspepsia is an exclusive diagnosis disease. After finding relevant symptoms, we must strictly check organic diseases or other systemic diseases to prevent misdiagnosis due to similar symptoms.

　　Irritable bowel syndrome

　　Irritable bowel syndrome is also a common clinical functional bowel disease. The main characteristics are abdominal pain, abdominal discomfort with stool frequency and character change. During this period, the abdominal pain is more than that after defecation.

　　The etiology of functional gastrointestinal disease is often relatively complex, such as gastrointestinal motility disorder, visceral sensory abnormalities, mental factors, intestinal environmental factors may lead to the emergence of irritable bowel syndrome.

　　One of the characteristics of irritable bowel syndrome is the change of stool frequency. Based on this feature, it can be divided into three types: diarrhea dominated type, constipation dominated type and diarrhea constipation alternating type, and the drug administration ideas are also different accordingly.

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