Understand your unique gastroparesia symptoms and treatment options
There is a spectrum of Ernst in Gastroparesis, so understanding your unique situation is important. By making contact with your care team, the answers will help and the challenges of a disease are confronted where symptoms can be episodic, flare up and then be quiet.
In severe cases, certain patients end up on food tubes or may need surgery to improve the motility of the stomach and quality of life.
“There are many people who just have milder symptoms that never really claim, which is good,” andrews notes, but symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, bloating and abdominal pain are not easy to manage. ER visits are not uncommon with disease-free-ups for pain, nausea and rehydration.
There are therapies that can be useful, often starting with dietary changes. When you think of stomach problems, people jump to fiber to help digestion. With gastroparesis, fiber is limited because the roughage is difficult to process and expel.
“We often talk about what a low particle diet is called of softer foods or even go completely to a liquid diet, because liquids can usually usually empty gravity,” he says.
When medication is recommended, the two main types are the prokinetics, which help accelerate and facilitate gastric emptying and anti-disability medicines. These treat symptoms, but not the underlying condition.
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