DIGESTIVE TRACT PARALYSIS AWARENESS MONTH
About Digestive Tract Paralysis Awareness Month
Digestive Tract Paralysis Awareness Month occurs in August and was created by non-profit Gastroparesis And ME. The purpose of this month long awareness campaign is to raise funds for research and for those who have GP. Raise Awareness for Support about the disease including fostering understanding and compassion and to use the money to create resources for families coping with this devastatingly silent illness. Its final goal is to receive national recognition through the passage of legislation to protect people suffering from this disease.
Gastroparesis (aka delayed gastric emptying), is a medical condition involving partial paralysis of the stomach. Persons with the disease cannot digest food properly and as a result the food remains in their stomach for an abnormally long period of time.
MedicineNet.com lists the following facts on Gastroparesis:
Gastroparesis is a disease of the muscles of the stomach or the nerves controlling the muscles that causes the muscles to stop working.
Gastroparesis results in inadequate grinding of food by the stomach, and poor emptying of food from the stomach into the intestine.
The primary symptoms of gastroparesis are nausea and vomiting.
Gastroparesis is best diagnosed by a test called a gastric emptying study.
Gastroparesis usually is treated with nutritional support, drugs for treating nausea and vomiting, drugs that stimulate the muscle to contract, and, less often, electrical pacing, and surgery.
The National Institute on Health has put together a number of brochures on the most pervasive digestive disorder diseases which can be accessed here:
http://www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/ap.aspx?control=Pubs
Gastroparesis (aka delayed gastric emptying), is a medical condition involving partial paralysis of the stomach. Persons with the disease cannot digest food properly and as a result the food remains in their stomach for an abnormally long period of time.
MedicineNet.com lists the following facts on Gastroparesis:
Gastroparesis is a disease of the muscles of the stomach or the nerves controlling the muscles that causes the muscles to stop working.
Gastroparesis results in inadequate grinding of food by the stomach, and poor emptying of food from the stomach into the intestine.
The primary symptoms of gastroparesis are nausea and vomiting.
Gastroparesis is best diagnosed by a test called a gastric emptying study.
Gastroparesis usually is treated with nutritional support, drugs for treating nausea and vomiting, drugs that stimulate the muscle to contract, and, less often, electrical pacing, and surgery.
The National Institute on Health has put together a number of brochures on the most pervasive digestive disorder diseases which can be accessed here:
http://www.digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/ap.aspx?control=Pubs
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