How long does it take to treat digestive disorders

There is no unified recovery cycle for the treatment of digestive disorders. Most mild symptoms that have just appeared will improve significantly within 1 to 2 weeks of treatment. If the disorder has become a chronic disorder that lasts for more than half a year, it may take 3 to 6 months or even longer to stabilize the condition without recurrence.

I met a girl who had just finished her postgraduate exam a while ago. She drank coffee and bread every day while preparing for the exam, and often forgot to eat dinner. She ate a very spicy hot pot on the day after the exam and it was fried. She burped when she ate anything and had acid reflux. After a gastroscopy, it was not even superficial gastritis, but a typical digestive disorder. After she returned home, she gave up all cold drinks and spicy food. She drank half a bowl of warm pumpkin porridge with each meal, and stood for 10 minutes before sitting down after meals. She also did not take any medicine. She was completely symptom-free in about 11 days. Later, she occasionally ate hot pot and did not do it again.

But if it has been put off for a long time and not taken seriously, the adjustment cycle will not be so fast. Last month, a young man who worked in Internet operations came to me and said that he had been suffering from diarrhea for almost two years. He always suffered from diarrhea when working overtime to meet demand. Before, he always thought that he had eaten something bad, so he just took some antidiarrheal medicine to deal with it. But now he has to run to the toilet to drink room-temperature milk tea. He had to go to the toilet for more than three months. In the middle, he stayed up two nights because of a big sale. It was not until he changed the habit of checking his mobile phone before going to bed to going for a 20-minute walk that his anxiety was mostly relieved, and his gastrointestinal condition gradually stabilized.

There are actually two different views in the industry on whether to use medication to intervene. Some people think that digestive disorders are inherently functional problems and have no organic disease. They can be cured by adjusting diet and rest, and do not need to take medicine. Others think that when there are obvious symptoms, they should first use medicine to suppress the symptoms to avoid the formation of wrong "memories" in the gastrointestinal tract, which will make it less likely to become chronic. In fact, there is nothing wrong with both of these statements. If you have had the problem for less than a week and it is not painful or affecting your normal life, you can try to adjust it yourself first. If it has been recurring for almost a month and it is still not cured, don’t force yourself to do it. Ask a doctor to prescribe some probiotics or medicine to regulate gastrointestinal motility, which can help you get better faster.

To be honest, the stomach is really a very vindictive little character. If you treat it twice occasionally and coax it for about ten days, it will be cured. If you torment it year after year, it will get angry with you and it will not take half a year to coax it well. You really don’t have to suffer for such a long time just for a few sips of ice cream and a few late nights.