What is Dyspepsia?

Dyspepsia is a disorder of the digestive system. It is like really bad indigestion. Symptoms include severe burning in the stomach, the need to belch and nausea.

The term dyspepsia refers to pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen. "Centered" means that the symptom is located in or around the midline. Pain that is located in either the right upper quadrant or the left upper quadrant is not considered to be dyspepsia.

Dyspepsia may or may not be associated with meals. A common disease cause of dyspepsia is peptic ulcer of the stomach or duodenum. By definition, functional dyspepsia is not caused by a disease process, such as ulcer.

Furthermore, it is not irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), meaning that the symptom is not exclusively relieved by defecation or associated with the onset of a change in stool frequency or stool form. Nevertheless, functional dyspepsia and IBS often coexist.

Dyspepsia is one of the most common ailments of the bowel (intestines), affecting an estimated 20% of persons in the United States. Perhaps only 10% of those affected actually seek medical attention for their dyspepsia. Dyspepsia is not a particularly good term for the ailment since it implies that there is "dyspepsia" or abnormal digestion of food, and this most probably is not the case.

In fact, another common name for dyspepsia is indigestion, which, for the same reason, is no better than the term dyspepsia! Doctors frequently refer to the condition as non-ulcer dyspepsia. Dyspepsia (indigestion) is best described as a functional disease.

(Sometimes, it is called functional dyspepsia.) The concept of functional disease is particularly useful when discussing diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. The concept applies to the muscular organs of the gastrointestinal tract-esophagus, stomach, small intestine, gallbladder, and colon. What is meant by the term, functional, is that either ... more.

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