What kind of medicine is effective in treating digestive disorders?

There is really no magic medicine that "can cure all symptoms". The most effective ones are those that can treat symptoms. Currently, the commonly used conditioning drugs in clinical practice are basically to promote gastrointestinal motility, suppress acid and antacid, probiotic preparations, and digestive enzymes. You must first understand what type of disorder you have. Taking carelessly will make it worse.

The e-commerce operator I worked with a while ago just experienced this. She stayed up for more than 20 days before the big sale, relying on heavy oil and spicy takeaways to stay awake. After eating less than half a bowl of rice, her chest hurt due to swelling, and she kept getting acid reflux and burning her throat. She ate it at home. The three-day Jianweixiaoshi tablets were of no use at all, so I went to a community hospital and the doctor prescribed domperidone combined with pantoprazole. After three days of taking it, I no longer had acid reflux, and most of the feeling of bloating was gone. Later, I added digestive enzymes for a week, and I completely recovered.

But this set of medicines didn't work at all for my mother. She was diagnosed with a digestive disorder last winter. Her symptoms were not bloating at all, but borborygmus and diarrhea as soon as she touched something cold, and a dull pain in her stomach. She didn't understand at first and took prokinetic medicine for two days, but the diarrhea got worse. Later, when she went for a follow-up visit, the doctor prescribed medicinal Bifidobacterium quadruple live bacteria and told her not to touch ice. She usually drank warm millet porridge. It took almost a month for her to become normal again.

Speaking of probiotics, there is actually quite a lot of controversy in the industry now. Many gastroenterologists feel that most of the food-grade Internet celebrity probiotics on the market cannot withstand the corrosion of gastric acid and are basically inactivated after entering the stomach. Pure IQ tax, only medicinal probiotics with clearly marked strains and active quantities can have a conditioning effect.； However, there are also clinical studies showing that for minor intestinal flora disorders caused by irregular diet, some compliant food-grade specific strains can also play a role in assisting improvement. Whether it is useful or not actually depends on the matching of individual symptoms.

Speaking of which, I really have to remind you not to buy medicine based on your symptoms. I once read a netizen’s sharing. He took omeprazole whenever he had stomach bloating. He took it for almost half a year. Later, he went for a gastroscopy and found that the gastric acid secretion function was suppressed, which in turn aggravated the problem of indigestion. The gain outweighed the gain.

In fact, digestive disorders are more like gastrointestinal tantrums, and sometimes they cannot be solved by taking medicine alone. Like the operation girl mentioned above, after she recovered, she no longer dared to take out food every day. She brought some steamed pumpkin and soda crackers in her bag as a snack every day, and she has not done it again for more than half a year. If you have frequent problems such as gastric bloating, acid reflux, alternating diarrhea and constipation, it is best to go to the hospital to check whether there are any organic problems, and then ask the doctor to prescribe appropriate medicines for you. It is much more reliable than blindly searching for posts and buying medicines yourself.