Anaciditas

ANACIDITAS (from Greek α - negative particle, and Latin acidum - acid), absence of acidity, an anomaly of secretion (mainly gastric) with cessation of HCl secretion (see Achylia gastrica). The basis of this disease is most often a chronic inflammatory process (catarrh), leading to gradual extinction of the secretory function of the gastric glands, and then to complete atrophy of the glandular cells themselves (anadenia); more rarely - constitutional weakness of the organism. A special place is occupied by the purely functional form, in which the disturbance of secretion depends either on a particular setting of the secretory apparatus (late secretion, HCl secretion only with strong irritants), or⁴ on mental depression against a background of general neurasthenia or psychosis.--Symptoms: a number of dyspeptic phenomena accompanying food intake - heaviness under the xiphoid process, bloating, pains (especially after meat food), diarrhea soon after eating (gastrogenous diarrhea), sometimes vomiting.--The prognosis in chronic gastritis depends on the course of the latter; in anadenia, only improvement of digestion is possible (compensation of gastric achylia by the work of the pancreas and intestine);- in the functional form, the prognosis depends on the general picture of neuropsychic suffering.--Treatment: diet with restriction of meat (only in minced form) and any coarse food, but at the same time stimulation of secretion (broths, extracts, lemon, etc.); from medications - hydrochloric acid, preparations of the pancreas and mineral waters rich in sodium chloride and carbonic acid.