How long does it take to treat digestive disorders

There is no unified standard for the recovery time of digestive disorders. Mild cases can be basically relieved by adjusting your lifestyle in 2 weeks to 1 month. For those who have become chronic and accompanied by emotional problems, it may take 3 months to half a year or even longer to stabilize without recurrence.

Last week, I met a sophomore student who ate fried skewers and iced Coke from a late-night snack stall for half a month. He suffered from abdominal pain and diarrhea for almost 10 days. His bowel routine and colonoscopy showed no abnormality. It was a typical acute digestive disorder. After returning home, he stopped eating late-night snacks and ate some lukewarm noodles and steamed vegetables every day, not even probiotics. After 18 days, he completely returned to a normal diet and never had the same problem again.

As for whether medication should be used to treat this disease, there are actually different tendencies in the industry. Some doctors think that as long as organic lesions are ruled out, the disease can be cured without taking medication at all and can be adjusted through life. Others believe that timely intervention with probiotics and prokinetic drugs is needed to avoid it becoming chronic and more difficult to treat. After experiencing it myself, I feel that there is really no need to treat it across the board. If you have just committed the disease and the symptoms are mild, of course you don’t need to take medicine. However, if you have experienced bloating and acid reflux after eating something for a month or two, and you can’t even sleep well, and you insist on not taking medicine, it will prolong the recovery period.

Many people are slow to recover. In fact, they do not pay attention to the impact of emotions. There was a female patient in her 40s who still suffered from stomachache from time to time after almost half a year of treatment. She had gastroscopy, Helicobacter pylori, and abdominal color ultrasound without any problems. Later, after talking more carefully, I found out that she was catching up with her child's high school entrance examination at that time, and she was also in a critical period for promotion at work. She was so anxious every day that she had insomnia all night long. The intestines and stomach are originally controlled by autonomic nerves. Your whole body is as stretched as a taut rubber band. How can the intestines and stomach relax and work? Later, she accompanied her child to finish the exam, and went to square dance two nights a week. She even gradually stopped taking the stomach medicine she had taken before. Within two months, the previous symptoms were basically gone.

It’s interesting to say that the intestines and stomach are actually very similar to a familiar kitten you raise. You usually freeze it every day, stuff it with heavy food, and always let it follow you in fear.

I have been working in the Department of Gastroenterology for so many years, and I have seen the fastest young man. He drank cold beer for three days in a row and had a stomachache. After drinking millet porridge for two days, he was completely cured. There is also a menopausal aunt who took almost 2 years of adjustment to get rid of the problem of frequent belching and acid reflux. After all, the recovery time can never be calculated with a precise number given by the doctor. Most of the initiative is actually in your own hands.