Suggest Treatment For Abdominal Discomfort And Vomiting

Posted on Thu, 21 Jan 2016

Question: had the flue but feel some what better but my stomach has been burning last few days...hard to eat or drink most things...skin around stomach is little tender and sore..throw up a little blood n threw up a lot when I had the flue but the vomiting stopped but stomach still burns,,,tumms relieves it a little

Answered by Dr. Dr. Muhammad Sareer Khalil (31 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Gastritis, PPIs, Upper GI bleed, assesment for Endoscopy

Detailed Answer:
Hello and Welcome

I appreciate your concern

In the presence vomiting out blood or hematemesis , endoscopy should be planned to look for the cause of such an upper gastrointestinal bleed, in consultation with a gastroenterologist. It can be gastritis for which PPIs like pantoprazole can be advised for a month. With PPI use the symptoms would resolve most likely if the endoscopy is unremarkable and shows mucosa erosions, only. Antacids alone wont be helpful. If the burning and tenderness is associated with specific foods then they should be identified. In this case ranitidine which is an H 2 blocker would be more helpful.

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