How long does it take to treat digestive disorders?

There is really no standard answer to this question. I have been in the gastroenterology clinic for almost 8 years, and I have seen complete recovery in as fast as one week. Slow recovery will still occur occasionally in two or three years. The core depends on the degree of disorder and your cooperation with the treatment. Last month, a sophomore student came here. He stayed up for three days during finals week, eating iced milk tea and fried chicken. He had diarrhea for almost a week and became bloated even after eating. He had a gastroscopy and colonoscopy and there was no organic problem at all. It was just typical. He had a type of short-term digestive disorder, and he didn’t need any expensive medicine, so he was told not to suffer any longer. He drank warm millet porridge for several days with some probiotics for three meals a day. Less than 10 days later, he sent me a message saying that he and his classmates went to eat hot pot and they didn’t feel any discomfort.

But if you have become accustomed to the disorder of your intestines and stomach, recovery will not be so fast. There used to be a eldest sister in her 40s. At first, she just ate cold foods that made her flatulent. She bought Jianweixiaoshi tablets for several years to deal with the pain. When the pain was severe, she would take painkillers to cope with it. When she came to see a doctor, she would suffer from vomiting and diarrhea after eating something wrong. Even her autonomic nervous system was disordered. She suffered from insomnia and anxiety. It took almost 7 months of treatment before she finally stabilized.

Nowadays, there are two opinions on the Internet that many people support. One side says that digestive disorders are not a disease at all and can be completely cured by abstaining from food for half a month. The other side says that this disease cannot be cured at all and can only be treated for a lifetime. In fact, both of them are too absolute. For example, if it is just an acute disorder caused by a short-term disorder in diet or work and rest, let alone not eating for half a month, as long as the adjustments are in place, it can be relieved in three to five days. ； But if it has developed into irritable bowel syndrome, functional indigestion, or even accompanied by abnormalities in mood and autonomic nervous system, then dietary taboos alone are definitely not enough. A multi-pronged approach must be taken together with medications, mood regulation, and lifestyle adjustments. The recovery period will naturally be much longer. Oh, by the way, there used to be a young man who worked in Internet operations. He had stricter taboos than anyone else. He would not touch anything cold or spicy, and he would eat three meals on time as if he had set an alarm clock. However, after more than two months of conditioning, he still had diarrhea as soon as the project came online. Later I found out that he stayed up until two or three o'clock as soon as the project hit the deadline. He was so anxious that he couldn't even sleep well. Later, he cooperated with some emotional counseling and added some nerve-regulating drugs, and it took less than a month for him to feel relieved.

In fact, our intestines and stomach are like a custodian who goes to get off work on time. If you occasionally let it work overtime to deal with some cold, spicy, and indigestible "overtime goods", it will complain that it will be digested in two days. However, if you stuff it with overloaded things every day and disrupt its schedule, it will become passive and slow down. If you want to coax it back to its original working state, it will definitely take a lot of effort. There is really no need to worry about how long the treatment will take. Don’t bear it when you first feel uncomfortable. If you don’t put unnecessary burden on your stomach, you will definitely avoid a lot of suffering. If you always think about “staying through it for two more days”, the recovery time will only be longer and longer.