Gastroparesis

Stomach Conditions Gastroesophageal reflux: Stomach contents, including acid, can travel backward up the esophagus. There may be no symptoms, or reflux may cause heartburn or coughing. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD): When symptoms of reflux become bothersome or occur frequently, they’re called GERD. Infrequently, GERD can cause serious problems of the esophagus. Dyspepsia: Another name for stomach upset or indigestion. Dyspepsia may be caused by almost any benign or serious condition…

Title: Discover The Essential Equipment To Monitor Diabetes Meta: An article to help diabetics find essential equipment to monitor diabetes and avoid blindness, nerve damage and amputation. Technological advances have made the essential equipment to monitor diabetes easier to use with greater accuracy. Discover Essential Equipment To Monitor Diabetes A diabetes test can measure glucose, acetone and ketones. You can find supplies for each test. The Glucometer You may already know that…

” by Sarah McCarry, competitive eating should be banned. Competitive eating is life threatening because this sport can cause many health issues. Competitive eating can cause serious illnesses and diseases. “Another serious risk Metz says, is gastroparesis or stomach paralysis.” This proves that competitive eating can cause serious illnesses. Also, “Prize money does nothing to reduce the health risks of competitive eating, which include obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and severe stomach…

in the perioperative period is known to enhance bowel motility. Oral prokinetic medications like mosapride or itopride is also used although it is difficult to say how much drug gets absorbed in presence of gastroparesis. The oral route is used because these drugs are not available in intravenous form. Aggressive…

Jackie Robinson once said, “ A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.” This was my mantra when i became sick ,i had an urge to help others that are suffering with an illness.So i began helping others. I shared my story on the hospital’s website, and i encouraged patients at the hospital that were preparing for a pacemaker. A barrier that i faced was getting sick when i lived in Japan, and having to get multiple feeding tubes,multiple surgeries and a pacemaker.…

The pamphlet is discussing Type II diabetes and its complications. Type II diabetes is when the body does not use insulin properly and affects the way the body processes blood sugar. Diabetes is when the blood glucose levels are higher than normal. The blood glucose is the sugar that the body makes from the food in the diet. When there is a large amount of sugar in the blood, it is known as hyperglycemia. There are several complications that come with type II diabetes. One of the…

For my ethical dilemma, I chose pain management, more specially pain management in the Emergency Department (ED). The ethical dilemma faced is: who should receive narcotic analgesics and who should not; along with how much should they receive. This ethical dilemma faces providers in the ED every day, it is based around: what is a person’s level of pain (Marcus & Venkat, 2015)? In nursing school, we learned that pain level is whatever a patient says it is, this pain level is normally conveyed on…

During the Body Works experiments the patient performed a number of tasks. The patient performed a task called the Eat Healthy (My Pyramid/Diabetes) where she picked out a number of meals that represented the types of meals that she would eat on any given day. She selected foods like spaghetti and meatballs, a turkey sandwich, hamburger and fries, and a chocolate ice cream bar. After the patient was finished picking through the menu the machine then gave her a total for the amount of calories…

nerve function. Affecting the nervous system can be detrimental to the body’s functioning. Every body organ and system is correlated to nerves sending signals to the brain and maintaining a constant environment in the body called homeostasis. Gastroparesis is the loss of nerve function in the stomach where the nerves don’t process food to the small intestine and food is trapped in the stomach. This is caused by glucose build-up on the nerve and is irreversible other than a change of diet to…

Abdominal volume: IAP is closely related to the intra abdominal volume and any increase in this is associated with increased IAP. Few of the factors which may be associated with elevated IAP secondary to elevated volume include : paralytic ileus, gastroparesis, volvulus,…