Gastritis is a well-known condition and many people suffer from it. It can be described as irritation or inflammation of the stomach lining. In some mild cases a person may not even be aware of it; but there are also more severe forms; and also chronic ones. In order to be sure that you have this very condition it is important to know the symptoms as they are confusing sometimes.

A severe inflammation can show no sign at all and be not very troublesome when a minor one is able to be very painful.  The best way to prove your suspicions (if you have some) is to undergo an endoscopic examination of the stomach. This will help to lessen the possibility of any other illnesses.

The condition is very tricky in the case of elderly people therefore they should be careful as they may appear in the hospital with internal bleeding not even having been troubled with any sign of gastritis during the whole life once.

About 10% of people who complain of pain in the stomach are sure to have gastritis. The first sign of it – pain in the upper abdominal region.

The gastritis pain can be felt in the pit of the stomach, or it can be a cutting pain from front to back. You may feel soreness, cutting or burning sensation, it depends. Gastritis is also accompanied with belching, nausea, vomiting (bloody, too), bloating and other unpleasant feelings.

In the case of severe gastritis stomach bleeding is possible. The condition may be supposed if there are the following symptoms present: sudden sweating, uneven heart beat, paleness, also acute pain in chest and stomach, etc. But the main sign is vomiting blood.

Black stools, stomach cramps, fever or apathy, indigestion, diarrhea, also belching can as well be symptoms of gastritis.

Nevertheless all the above mentioned symptoms may be found in a person who suffer from gastritis as well as not. In some cases it is discovered when the severest condition developed. This generally happens to people over sixty and evoked often by alcohol abuse or some medications administration.