How long does it take to treat digestive disorders?

There is no unified time standard for the treatment of digestive disorders. Mild cases can be significantly relieved in 1 to 2 weeks if adjustments are made in place. If the disease lasts for a long time, combined with emotional problems or bad habits that are difficult to correct, it may take 3 to 6 months or even longer to stabilize.

When I was doing health follow-up in the gastroenterology department, I came across two very contrasting cases. One was a young girl who had just joined the job. She had to eat iced American food with fried chicken for a month in a hurry to catch up on projects. It was common to stay up until two or three o'clock. Later, when it was time to eat, she had flatulence and frequent diarrhea. After a gastrointestinal endoscopy, there were no organic problems. It was a typical functional disorder. After listening to the advice, she gave up drinking ice. She took 10 minutes to walk downstairs every day, rubbed her belly for 10 minutes before going to bed, and took intestinal probiotics for a week. Within half a month, she told me that she never had flatulence again, and she no longer had to run to the toilet when eating something cold.

There is also a retired Aunt Zhang. When she was working in sales in her twenties, she was always in rush for meals. It was common for her to be hungry after a meal. Later, she developed a problem and developed acid reflux and belching. She frowned in pain whenever she had an quarrel with her husband. After almost five months of adjustment, she took both Chinese and Western medicines according to the doctor's instructions. She also went to the community to do Tai Chi to regulate her mood. After more than half a year, she finally no longer had to carry stomach medicine with her, and she could eat some glutinous rice cakes every now and then without feeling uncomfortable for most of the day.

Many people always ask "how long will it take for me to feel better" when they first start treatment? They even think that it takes two weeks for others to feel better, or else the treatment method is wrong. This is actually a bit taken for granted. Digestive dysfunction is not the kind of problem that can be eradicated by cutting off polyps and taking antibiotics. It is more like the tantrums caused by your stomach after being "wronged" for a long time. Sometimes you just starve twice and drink ice wine to make you a little moody. It only takes two days to coax it away. ； Some of them have accumulated grievances for more than ten years, and they have exploded together with problems such as emotional stress and poor sleep, so they must take their time.

Nowadays, there are two quite extreme opinions. One thinks that this is just a minor problem and can be cured by taking some digestion-promoting medicine in three to five days. The other thinks that this disease cannot be cured at all and will cause suffering for the rest of life. In fact, both of them are a bit one-sided. I have seen many people take the medicine for two days and feel better, then immediately go back to stay up late and drink cold beer. Within two weeks, they will relapse again, and it will become chronic, and it will be more difficult to adjust. ； There are also many old patients who are slowly adjusting their diet and learning to regulate their emotions. Even if they occasionally feel a little uncomfortable after eating the wrong thing, they will not last for ten days and a half like before, and it will basically not affect their normal life. This is actually considered to be in place.

If you really want to worry about the precise conditioning time, it is better to first see how much patience you are willing to give to your stomach. After all, how many years have you stayed up late and worked on your stomach? You can’t expect it to be fully replenished in ten and a half months, right?