What is the maintenance treatment of gastric ulcer?

　　Peptic ulcer and its complications that (GU) and duodenal ulcer (DU), its incidence and gastric acid and pepsin digestion of the role of the, so called peptic ulcer. Patients often due to fatigue, stress, alcohol consumption, improper diet-induced, according to different ulcer sites, and showed empty abdominal pain, night pain, or postprandial pain.
　　Peptic ulcer disease is a common disease, an estimated 10% of people will be troubled by stomach or duodenal ulcer. The occurrence of peptic ulcer was mainly due to increased gastric acid secretion caused. Helicobacter pylori infection can destroy the protective mucosal barrier, is also an important pathogenic factor in peptic ulcer.
　　In peptic ulcer patients, young people with duodenal ulcers were more common than gastric ulcers more common for older people. Alternately in the winter season, is also a high incidence of the disease.
　　Peptic ulcer is a typical psychosomatic disease areas, optimistic mood, patterns of life, avoid excessive stress and fatigue on the prevention and treatment are very important.
　　When the ulcer is bleeding as hematemesis and melena performance, amount of bleeding is large, can cause a range of systemic symptoms such as dizziness, exhaustion, etc.; if the merger of perforation, after a meal is mostly sustained sudden severe abdominal pain, have such symptoms need to be rushed to hospital for emergency treatment.
　　Duodenal ulcer usually requires regular treatment for 4 weeks to 6 weeks, gastric ulcers require treatment for 6 weeks to 8 weeks. During treatment must avoid "in fits and starts" approach.
　　In addition to regular drug treatment, prevention and maintenance treatment of peptic ulcer is very important. If the patient through the treatment of symptoms, the neglect of prevention and maintenance treatment, most are easy to relapse. Bad mood, rest abnormal, irregular diet, smoking, drinking, drug abuse (such as aspirin, indomethacin, Phenylbutazone and prednisone, dexamethasone and other steroid drugs) is a predisposing factor, should be care to avoid.