How long does it take to treat digestive disorders?

There is no unified standard for the treatment cycle of digestive disorders. Mild symptoms can be significantly relieved in 1-2 weeks. Those with chronic emotional problems and long-term bad living habits may take 3 months or even longer to stabilize. There are also some people with genetic susceptibility and food intolerance who may have intermittent recurrences, making it difficult to completely "root out" the disease.

I have been a gastrointestinal health coach for almost 6 years. The fastest I have ever seen was a girl who just graduated from the Internet. She ate cold takeout and stayed up until 2 or 3 o'clock to catch up on projects for 3 months. She suddenly started feeling bloated after eating and had diarrhea all the time. After a gastrointestinal endoscopy, everything was normal, which is a typical functional disorder. She also had a strong execution ability. She gave up ice milk tea that day, set aside 20 minutes for each meal to sit down and eat slowly, took a 20-minute detour home from get off work, and took probiotics for a week. After 12 days, she told me that her symptoms were all gone, and even the bad breath that she often had before was gone.

But not everyone can recover so quickly. Not long ago, a 42-year-old salesman came to me. He had been suffering from repeated belching and constipation for almost three years. When the quarterly results came, he got into trouble. He had taken nearly 10,000 yuan worth of stomach nourishing supplements before, but he didn't feel any better. In fact, most of his problems are caused by emotions. The gut-brain axis we often talk about is not a gimmick. The brain and the intestines and stomach are linked in real time. If you are tense and anxious every day, the intestines and stomach first receive the "stress" signal. When it is time to peristaltic, it will slow down by half a beat, and when it is time to secrete digestive juices, it will be lazy, isn't it a mess? The industry now has different views on this kind of situation. Some doctors think that as long as organic diseases are ruled out, no special intervention is needed, and it will be fine when the work pressure decreases. Some doctors who study functional gastrointestinal diseases recommend regulating emotions as early as possible to avoid it becoming chronic. The eldest brother finally followed the practice of mindful breathing for more than two months, and occasionally took some motility-stimulating drugs. After three months, he told me that he finally no longer had to carry the Jianweixiaoshi tablets with him when he went out.

There are also some patients who failed to find the trigger and found no relief after being treated for more than half a year. There used to be a sophomore student who always had diarrhea and thought it was because the school cafeteria was not clean. He took antidiarrheal medicine for more than half a year to no avail. Finally, after a food intolerance check, it was found that he was mildly allergic to wheat. Of course, eating noodles and steamed buns every day would not make him better. Less than a month after changing the pasta to rice, the symptoms basically disappeared. It’s interesting to say that regulating the stomach is actually similar to regulating the biological clock. You have stayed up late for three or four years and built your stomach for several years. You can’t expect to take medicine for three days and everything will be fine, right? Don't be too anxious. After all, most digestive disorders are not serious problems. If you find the right cause and make appropriate adjustments, most of them can slowly stabilize within two or three months. The more anxious you are about "when will it get better?", the more your stomach will be unable to relax, and the slower it will recover.