You can treat gastroparesis by taking medications, changing eating habits, controlling your blood sugar levels, parenteral nutrition, venting gastrostomy, oral or nasal tube feeding, Jejunostomy tube feeding and Gastric electrical stimulation.
Drinking water does help with gastroparesis and helps prevent dehydration which can make your nausea worse.
Also if you throw up a lot with gastroparesis you should drink sports drinks such as Gatorade, Pedialyte or other drinks with some sugar or electrolytes.
Some of the foods that can make gastroparesis worse are foods high in dietary fiber, fatty meals, greasy foods, high calorie foods.
There is a natural way to heal gastroparesis which includes avoiding eating foods such as cruciferous vegetables, seeds and nuts, corn, legumes and beans which can cause delayed stomach emptying and irritate the stomach.
Also eating a gluten free diet and grain free diet can also help heal gastroparesis and reduce symptoms.
Gastroparesis can lead to weight loss and not getting enough nutrients (malnutrition).
It's very important to follow your healthcare provider's diet instructions.
In most cases you will be given a special diet. This will have foods that are easier to digest and pass through your stomach.
Foods you should avoid if you have gastroparesis include.
Too much fat. You'll want to limit solid foods high in fat.
High-fiber food. Some fruits and vegetables can be hard to chew.
Tough food. That includes meats like steak and roast, or anything with skin.
Dairy. You may not digest lactose very well.
The deficiency that can cause gastroparesis is a vitamin B12 deficiency.
Because gastroparesis interferes with digestion and absorption of nutrients, people with gastroparesis may be deficient in important vitamins and minerals such as vitamin B-12, iron, and calcium.
A liquid vitamin and mineral supplement may help supply missing nutrients.
Foods to eat if you have gastroparesis are high protein foods such as creamy nut butter and eggs as well as easy to digest vegetables such as cooked zucchini.
You do still poop with gastroparesis although with gastroparesis your whole digestive process is slowed down and it can delay your bowel movements.
This can also deliver large, undigested pieces of food to the intestines which are more difficult to pass through.
Doctors test for gastroparesis by use of lab tests, imaging tests, tests to measure how fast your stomach is emptying it's contents and through an upper gastrointestinal (GI) endoscopy.
Bananas are good for gastroparesis.
Other soft fruits and vegetables are also good for gastroparesis such as peaches, pears, honeydew melon and cantaloupe.
Metoclopramide is a good medicine that can treat and help gastroparesis.
Metoclopramide increases the movements in your digestive system, helping the food to pass through more quickly and efficiently.
This is the only medication in the United States that is FDA approved to treat gastroparesis.
However, in some patients it may cause movement disorders.
Medications to stimulate the stomach muscles. These medications include metoclopramide (Reglan) and erythromycin.
Medications to control nausea and vomiting. Drugs that help ease nausea and vomiting include diphenhydramine (Benadryl, others) and ondansetron (Zofran).
The symptoms of severe gastroparesis include heartburn, pain in your upper abdomen, too much belching, too much bloating, vomiting, nausea, feeling full longer after eating a meal and feeling full soon after starting a meal.
With gastroparesis you will throw up after eating within a few hours or so or late in the day after you eat.
Nausea and vomiting are two of the most common symptoms of gastroparesis, most likely stemming from the sluggish emptying of the stomach.
Most often these symptoms occur toward the end of meals or soon after meals are finished.
Eating does make gastroparesis worse if you eat certain foods that trigger gastroparesis such as high fat and high fiber foods or greasy foods.
Carbonated drinks can also cause gastroparesis worse.
Foods that can worsen gastroparesis include fried chicken, cabbage, oranges, sausage, peppers, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, salsa, broccoli, bacon and roast beef.
Salad can be eaten with gastroparesis but you should only eat small salads as too much salad can trigger a gastroparesis flareup due to the fiber that is hard for the stomach to digest and empty.
Certain foods such as high fiber foods, high protein foods and high fat foods can trigger gastroparesis.
You can still poop with gastroparesis although with gastroparesis slows down the whole digestive process and can delay any bowel movements you have.
The gastroparesis condition can also cause large, undigested pieces of food to be delivered to the intestines which are also more difficult to pass through.
Gastroparesis does show up in blood work as the blood tests for gastroparesis are used to detect any signs of malnutrition, infections, dehydration and inflammation which can indicate gastroparesis.
The doctor will also perform urine tests along with the blood tests to diagnose gastroparesis as the urine tests show signs of diabetes, dehydration, infection and kidney problems.
An endoscopy will show gastroparesis and it's one of the most effective tools in diagnosing cases of gastroparesis in people.
The flexible scope of the endoscopy tool will be introduced through your mouth which is then capable of showing real time images of your interior digestive organs and show gastroparesis if you have it.
The people who is likely to get gastroparesis are people that have diabetes and people who have had surgery on their esophagus, small intestine or stomach that can injure the vagus nerve and people who have had certain cancer treatments such as radiation therapy on the stomach or chest area.
Other health issues that put you at risk for developing gastroparesis include certain medications such as narcotic pain medications, infection from a virus, abdominal surgery and Scleroderma which is a connective tissue disease.
You can know if you have gastroparesis by the signs and symptoms of gastroparesis which include feeling full after little food is eaten and nausea, bloating, abdominal pain, stomach pain, heart burn and pain in your upper abdomen, burning in the chest, belching, indigestion and regurgitation.
You should suspect gastroparesis when you have chronic abdominal pain, chronic bloating, postprandial fullness, early satiety, chronic vomiting or chronic nausea.
You don't always throw up with gastroparesis as only some people with gastroparesis experience vomiting and vomiting is occurs in only 50 percent of people with gastroparesis.
Gastroparesis will feel like a fullness after eating only a few bites or small amounts of food, abdominal bloating, abdominal pain, and vomiting of undigested food that was eaten only a few hours earlier.
The age at which gastroparesis starts is any age and can range from your teen years to well into your 90s.
The Stage 1 diet for gastroparesis is a diet that is not adequate in all nutrients except for sodium and potassium and should not be consumed for longer than 3 days.
Foods for the stage 1 diet for gastroparesis include vegetables, breads, cereals and grains, meats and meat substitutes and fats and oils.
With gastroparesis you will lose weight because you don't get enough nutrients which is called malnutrition.
The main cause of gastroparesis is diabetes, because diabetes can damage your nerves such as your vagus nerve and nerves and special cells that are called pacemaker cells that are in the wall of your stomach.
Not eating can cause gastroparesis as not eating slows down your heart rate and contractions of your stomach and intestines which causes both gastroparesis and even constipation.