The stomach is a muscular organ situated on the left part of the topest abdomen. The stomach gets food from the esophagus. As food reaches the lastings of the esophagus, it inserts directly towards the stomach through a muscular valve known as the lower esophageal sphincter.
Function of Stomach
- The main functioning of the stomach includes mechanical and chemical digestion of ingested food.
- Ingested food inserts towards the stomach from the esophagus like the cardiac orifice, passing into gastric juice produced by the stomach.
- Repetitive muscle contractions physically churned the food particles and breaking food into smaller fragments which are combined with the gastric juice.
- The numerous enzymes and hydrochloric acid ,pH 1-2 in the gastric juice helps in breaking food down even more, causing a semi-liquid substance known as chyme.
- This ultimately falls into the duodenum through the pyloric orifice by a procedure known as gastric peristalsis.
- Being a muscular organ, the stomach can distended quietly a lot and accumulate anywhere between two and three liters of food.
Common Stomach Issues
- Almost every person has faced a stomach related issue at any period in their lives. Perhaps the most normal persons are suffering from indigestion and heartburn.
- These matters can be resolved quite easily with across the counter tablets such as tums, but there is less denying which they are unpleasant experiences.
- While a healthy stomach has an amount of mucus and limitations strong enough to avoid stomach acids from wreaking havoc on the epithelium, the esophagus is not very quiet.
- When a patient does not have the sufficient limitations to avoid affect within the stomach, a medical issue which arises are peptic ulcers.
- There are other red flag signs that are located in the urgent and emergency care setting that indicate stomach issues.
- Some Stomach issues are:- burning sensation in the chest heartburn, piercing, abdominal pain, blood in the stool, vomiting diarrhea.
