What is a gastric ulcer

Ulcer disease is a common chronic systemic diseases, were divided into gastric and duodenal ulcers, also known as peptic ulcer. It is called a peptic ulcer, because of previous gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer that was due to gastric acid and pepsin digestion on the formation of mucous membrane itself, in fact, gastric acid and pepsin is only one of the main ulcer formation There are other reasons for the formation of ulcer disease. Because the cause of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, and there are many similarities between clinical symptoms, the doctor is sometimes difficult to distinguish between gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer, it is often diagnosed as peptic ulcer or gastric ulcer . If you can clear in the stomach or duodenal ulcers, that can be directly diagnosed as gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer.