PATHOPHYSIOLOGY WITH ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY

To better understand gastritis, it helps to understand the anatomy of the stomach.

The esophagus is a muscular tube that propels food down to the stomach. The stomach
is the most dilated portion of the digestive tube, situated between the esophagus and
the beginning of the small intestine (duodenum). It lies in the upper central portion of the
abdomen (above the umbilicus) and to the left of the midline. The stomach produces
gastric juice (acidic), which serves to breakdown proteins.

Pathophysiology of Gastritis

Precipitating Factors:
>Environmental Sanitation
>Personal Hygiene
sposing Factor:
>Improper
handling of foods
ry Indiscretion (the person eats food that is contaminated
the
>Unsterilized utensils.

Food eaten; irritates stomach

Contaminated food and water; unhygienic lifestyle

Increase peristalsis movement of the intestines
(Inflammatory response to mucous membrane lining is destroyed due to
excessive production of intestinal fluids)
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SIGNS AND
SYMPTOMS:
Nausea and vomiting
Diarrhea
Loss of appetite
Fever

Effect to produce hyperemia (vascular dilatation with

local increase in blood flow of the intestinal mucosa)

Hyperistalsis in the

Fluid loss

Acute Gastroenteritis