Which medicine is more effective in treating digestive disorders?

There is no absolute most effective medicine for digestive disorders. The key is to identify the cause of the disorder first and then use the right medicine to achieve quick results.

Just last week, a 28-year-old Internet operator came to me and said that he had suffered from bloating and acid reflux in the afternoons for three months in a row. Sometimes he was in pain and broke out in cold sweats when he was busy. He bought Domperidone after reading the guide and took it for almost two weeks, but it didn't help at all. On the contrary, he sometimes suffered from diarrhea. I asked her to check Helicobacter pylori and fecal flora first. The result was that gastric acid secretion was disordered and the proportion of intestinal bifidobacteria was too low. Then she took omeprazole plus medicinal probiotics for two weeks as prescribed by the doctor. Last week, she reported that she had almost no bloated stomach anymore.

In fact, many people have misunderstandings about digestive disorders. They think that as long as they have poor digestion, they can just take gastric motility drugs. This is not the case. Take the most common bloated stomach as an example. If the bloating is caused by an occasional meal of heavy oily and spicy hot pot or a full meal at a dinner party, take one or two tablets of domperidone or compound digestive enzymes, which can relieve the bloating in half a day. However, if you are not bloated for half a month and keep burping and acid reflux, then it is most likely not a simple problem of eating too much, but either gastric acid secretion is disordered, or Helicobacter pylori is playing tricks. Taking gastric motility drugs at this time may actually cover up the real problem.

Speaking of which, I have to mention the probiotics that everyone often buys. There is currently no unified conclusion in the industry on the duration of taking medicinal probiotics. Some gastroenterologists believe that medicinal probiotics have a single strain, and it is best not to take them continuously for more than one month, otherwise it will affect the intestinal tract's ability to breed beneficial bacteria. Some doctors believe that as long as it is a compliant strain, you will not be dependent if you take it for 3 months. In fact, this must be determined based on your own improvement. If you don't feel better after taking it for 2 weeks, don't insist on taking it, and quickly change the direction to find out the reason.

There is another type of situation that is more special, that is, the problem does not lie in the gastrointestinal tract itself. I once met a junior student who had diarrhea every final week. He ran to the toilet three or four times a day, and antidiarrheal medicine did not help. Later, it was found that it was not an intestinal infection at all, but stress-induced irritable bowel syndrome. The doctor prescribed pinaverium bromide plus a small amount of oryzanol, and he went back to running for 20 minutes every day. This year, the problem did not happen again during the postgraduate entrance examination week.

To be honest, if your digestive disorder has lasted for more than a month, and you also lose weight quickly and have black stools, don’t think about taking medicine to treat it first. Go for a gastrointestinal endoscopy to check for organic problems. After ruling out the problem, you can treat the symptoms accordingly. It is much more effective than buying a bunch of Internet celebrity stomach-nourishing medicines.