How to Manage Functional Dyspepsia?

Good digestion of food in the human gastrointestinal tract is essential for supplying nutrients to the body, thus making good digestion crucial for overall health. Functional dyspepsia, also known as indigestion, manifests with symptoms such as epigastric pain, abdominal bloating, belching, nausea, vomiting, and poor appetite. Proper management of functional dyspepsia is essential, yet many patients are unaware of how to effectively regulate it. Let's delve into the matter.

Firstly, establish a regular dietary pattern, eat on time, and opt for easily digestible foods. Secondly, appropriate exercise can help improve gastrointestinal function. Thirdly, maintain good sleep hygiene. Lastly, maintaining a positive mindset and mood can assist in controlling and preventing the recurrence of functional dyspepsia.

Functional dyspepsia (FD), also known as indigestion, refers to a group of clinical syndromes characterized by symptoms such as epigastric pain, bloating, early satiety, belching, anorexia, nausea, and vomiting. These symptoms persist or recur for over a month or accumulate for more than twelve weeks in the past twelve months, excluding organic diseases that may cause these symptoms. FD is the most common type of functional gastrointestinal disorder clinically.

1. Early satiety refers to feeling full shortly after eating, resulting in a significant reduction in food intake.

2. Upper abdominal bloating often occurs after meals or persists and worsens after eating.

3. Early satiety and upper abdominal bloating are often accompanied by belching. Nausea and vomiting are not common and tend to occur in patients with significantly delayed gastric emptying, with vomiting consisting primarily of gastric contents from the meal.

4. Symptoms may vary during the course of the disease, often developing slowly over time with persistent or recurrent episodes. Many patients have predisposing factors such as dietary and mental triggers.