Gastroparesis is caused by stress as well as other conditions such as amyloidosis, viral infections, scleroderma, multiple sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, psychiatric disease, spinal cord injury and even diabetes.
The age at which a person gets gastroparesis is in their mid 30s although anyone of any age can get gastroparesis.
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.
The deficiency that causes gastroparesis is a Vitamin B12 deficiency as well as an iron deficiency and vitamin D deficiency.
The best medication for gastroparesis is Metoclopramide which increases movements in your digestive tract and digestive system to help food pass through more quickly and more efficiently.
Stage 3 gastroparesis is severe gastroparesis which is gastric failure which is characterized in people who do not respond to medications that are used to treat gastroparesis.
In people with stage 3 gastroparesis they cannot maintain proper hydration or nutrition and may require intravenous fluids and medications as well as surgery and other nutrition.
The stages of gastroparesis are.
Stage 1: Mild Gastroparesis.
Stage 2: Compensated gastroparesis.
Stage 3: Severe gastroparesis.
The place you hurt with gastroparesis is in your upper or central midline abdomen and the gastroparesis pain is described as sickening or cramping.
Gastroparesis can be mistaken for something else such as GERD or other GI disorders.
The presenting symptoms of functional dyspepsia mimic those of gastroparesis, leading to overdiagnosis of gastroparesis.
Functional dyspepsia should be considered first in people with characteristic upper GI symptoms suggestive of gastroparesis.
The drinks that are good for gastroparesis are fruit and vegetable smoothies, yogurt smoothies, water, tea, fruit juices, vegetable juices.
V-8 juice is a good juice to drink when you have gastroparesis and other good juices that also are good for gastroparesis include grape juice, cranberry juice, apple juice and pineapple juice.
Medications that should be avoided with gastroparesis are allergy medicines, high blood pressure medicines, opioid pain relievers and antidepressants as taking these medications with gastroparesis can make the condition worse.
Your stomach does sometimes swell with gastroparesis and you may even experience tenderness of the stomach with gastroparesis.
The signs and symptoms of gastroparesis include possible stomach swelling and tenderness, heartburn, pain in the upper abdomen, too much belching, too much bloating, vomiting, nausea, feeling full long after eating, feeling full soon after starting a meal.
Gastroparesis is a type of stomach failure in which your stomach is basically paralyzed.
The condition gastroparesis is paralysis of the stomach that affections the stomach nerves and muscles and makes the stomach muscle contractions slower and weaker than they need to be to digest the food properly and pass it on through your intestines.
When this happens it causes the food to sit too long in the stomach.
Gastroparesis is a disorder which slows or stops the movement of food from the stomach to the small intestine, even though there is no blockage in the stomach or intestines.
The condition gastroparesis is also called delayed gastric emptying.