The biggest difference between gastritis and enteritis

Gastritis is mainly caused by inflammation of the gastric mucosa, while enteritis is caused by inflammation of the intestinal mucosa.

Gastritis lesions are concentrated in the stomach. When the gastric mucosa is stimulated by various factors, such as poor eating habits, drugs, Helicobacter pylori infection, etc., it may lead to inflammation. Patients often show symptoms such as upper abdominal pain, fullness, nausea, vomiting, acid reflux, heartburn, etc. Severe gastritis may cause bleeding, ulcers and other complications of the gastric mucosa. Inflammatory lesions are in the intestinal tract. It often occurs with bacterial, viral, parasitic infections, autoimmune diseases, food allergies or intolerance, etc. Patients mainly manifested as abdominal pain, diarrhea, mucus stool, purulent blood stool, etc., may also be accompanied by fever, tenesmus and other symptoms. Different parts of enteritis symptoms will also vary, such as small enteritis may lead to malabsorption, malnutrition, colitis may cause stool habits change. In addition, long-term enteritis may lead to intestinal dysfunction, intestinal perforation, intestinal stenosis and other problems.