Prevention of chronic gastritis

To assess the nature of the clinical evolution of chronic gastritis, we observed 40 patients suffering from various forms of this disease for a long time (from 1 to 7 years). Among them there were 6 women and 12 men under the age of 40, 9 women and 13 men over 40. 7 patients suffered from chronic gastritis with preserved gastric secretory function, 11 patients suffered from chronic gastritis with reduced secretory function, 17 had no free HC1 in the gastric contents, and 5 patients (also with an anacid state) had gastritis of the operated stomach (Billroth II resection for ulcerative disease). In 33 patients, chronic gastritis was the main disease, in 7 it was combined with chronic inflammation of the biliary tract. At the beginning of the follow-up, 11 patients with chronic gastritis were accompanied by lesions of the biliary tract and in 2 - intestinal inflammation. In 5 patients, the duration of the disease with chronic gastritis was up to 1 year, in 7 - up to 3 years, in 4 - up to 5 years, in 12 - up to 10 years and in 12 - more than 10 years. During the year we observed 11 patients, 2 years - 11, 3 years - 3, 4 years - 5, 5 years - 7, 6 years - 2 and 7 years - 1. At the beginning and end of the observation period, the patients were examined and treated in a hospital, the rest of the time - in a polyclinic, some of the patients were hospitalized 3-4 times.