Fasting relieves the stomach

Fasting of Ramadan has a healing effect on gastric ulcers, as it reduces smoking recognized as a catalyst of the latter.Gastrointestinal system as a whole enjoys a good rest for the first time of the year.

I feel pity for the stomach. I really feel pity for the stomach, intestines, and in fact the whole, gastrointestinal system this because throughout the year, we do never allow this system to rest.

Apart from the three main meals, every five minutes, we pay something in our stomach, whether it's the case, drinks, fruit, or other food. None of us never thought that the food that we sent there is being digested by the stomach and barely reaching the half way, we put even more, only to interrupt the digestion process that has already taken place. This, of course, has to result to keep food longer in our stomach, which can lead to dyspepsia, gastritis, irritable bowel syndrome, etc.

On the other hand, Ramadan is the only period during which our gastrointestinal system takes a good rest since Muslims fast throughout the month. Digestion is not only the name of the movement of mixing of the stomach and absorption by the intestines, but it's a gigantic integrated system, which involves both the nervous system (vagus nerve) as the glands producing hormones.

Thus, the gastrointestinal system whole enjoys a good rest for the first time all year. As digestion begins in the mouth, where the salivary glands secrete excess saliva, which contains hormones that Act on the food, the workload of the salivary glands and teeth is reduced during the month of Ramadan. The esophagus is at rest during fasting, because there is no food that requires the swallowing movement that pushes the food to the stomach. In the same way, the stomach and intestines also take rest after they finished the digestion and absorption of food ingested during theSohoormeal, they have nothing to do until the Iftaar. Even the glands such as the pancreas and the gallbladder, which produce hormones, also reduce their secretions because there is no food that requires the secretion of hormones. As a result, there is a significant reduction in gastrointestinal hormones, such as gastric acid, gastrin, gastric inhibitory peptide (PIG), motilin, vasoactive intestinal (PVI), the neurotensin peptide, enteroglucagon, neuropeptide Y (NPY), gallium, etc. Finally, colon and liver are also resting during fasting.

In summary, the month of Ramadan relieves ourgastrointestinal system load and heavy efforts we did weigh on him and allows him to take what might be called remedial 30 days annual holiday.

With regard to the possibilities of diagnostics of the Ramadan fast, a good number of patients who consult doctors for abdominal pain, suffer from ulcers gastroduodenal. This type of ulcer can be gastric or duodenal. The occurrence of abdominal pain in gastric and duodenal ulcers is different depending on ingested food. Pain caused by a duodenal, though variable, occurs generally when the stomach is empty, while gastric ulcer pain after ingestion of foods.

In normal times, the differentiation between the two cases is hard to do, since people eat more frequently, but during Ramadan, an individual goes through two stages. The first during fasting, when the stomach is empty and the other after the evening meal, when the stomach is full. If the patient complains of abdominal pain, fasting, this refers to the possibility of a duodenal ulcer, and if the pain occurs after the Iftaar, then gastric ulcer be probable diagnosis.

Pain caused by peptic ulcer disease is variable and can not occur in some patients. Similarly, in most cases of duodenal ulcer, as soon as slight pain starts, the patient eat something, what stops the pain and disease remain undiagnosed. This undiagnosed ulcer can later resurface with a perforation of ulcer and hematemesis (vomiting blood) that causes many deaths.

During the month of Ramadan, fasting, due to duodenal ulcer pain is more likely to appear without it being possible to alleviate by food, and the patient may be required to see a doctor that using endoscopy, can easily diagnose the disease. By examining the abdomen of a patient who fasts, a doctor can easily, feel the softness, that feel the swelling around the area of peptic ulcer.

The Ramadan fast is a remedy for gastric, ulcers since it reduces tobacco consumption recognized as a catalyst for this disease. It also has a beneficial effect on chronic inflammatory bowel disease, irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia and gastritis.

Here is the last point and not least: imagine a person who fasted about 14 to 15 hours, and then prepares to break his fast. His taste buds enjoyed a good rest, so, during theIftaar, the food will taste better and more enjoyable than ever before. This is yet another grace of the month of Ramadan.The Messenger of Allah, said:

"The fasting person knows two joys, one at the time of breaking his fast, and the other at the time where he will meet his Lord. It will be content with his fast. »

Category: Fasting