Acute gastritis is an acute inflammation of the gastric mucosa.
The most common cause of acute gastritis is the impact from the outside. The impact can be quite varied:
eating disorders (eating unusual foods, overeating, drinking liquor, eating poor quality food, taking a very hot or very cold food).
If the diet contained a large number of pathogens, acute gastritis accompanied by food diseases.
Internal causes in the body as can sometimes lead to infection with acute gastritis: a physical stress (extensive burns, shock, myocardial infarction, blood transfusion, kidney disease, with a decrease in their function and accumulation in the blood products of nitrogen metabolism, liver disease, in violation of its functions). Acute gastritis can be:
catarrhal
corrosive
phlegmonous
fibrinous.
Separately identify allergic gastritis and gastroenterocolitis, which develops in foodborne diseases and the inflammatory process involves not only the stomach, but the entire intestine.
