Incessant advances in sciences and out times have brought about much stress and tension in day-to-day living in which few can connive with ease, in the emergency service of a hospital anywhere you will see without much astonishment a scenario like this; the family escorting an invalid rushing to the clinic room shouting: “hurry, hurry, miss, this is my next of kin who has just been vomiting blood and passing out tarry excrements.”

Here are disclosed briefly a few preventive and treatment methods for your reference:

1. What is meant by the phrase gastro-intestinal tract bleeding?
   It refers to a bleeding that occurs at the gullet, stomach, and duodenum. The common causes for a bleeding at any of these locations include: ulcerous diseases such as: gastric ulcer, duodenum ulcer, acute depravation focus, gullet varicosis, bleeding and bleeding due to tearing injury at the intersection of gullet with stomach. In addition, mucous ailment owing to excess pressure, drug intake, tobacco, alcoholic and food stimulation may also incur bleeding in the gastro-intestinal tract.
2. What are the symptoms of epigastrointestinal bleeding?
   (1) Discharge of tarry stool or excrement, bleeding that is discharged within 4 hours will render the stool scarlet red.
   (2) Mass bleeding may result in the stomach belching out fresh blood or coffee brown sediments.
   (3) Vertigo, thirst, accelerated heartbeat, pallor, limbal stupor, cold sweating, dyspnea, tormenting heat inflicted on the heart, hypo-uresis.
   (4) Lowering of BP, some patients may swoon down the ground while seated on a stool, turning unconscious in a shock, and eventually lethal in extreme cases.
3. What can be done to tell that I have my epigastrointestinal tract bleeding?
   (1) By way of faeces examination;
   (2) By way of confirmation of occult blood reaction of gastric fluids drawn by nasal feeding intubation;
   (3) By way of anal diagnosis for observation of fecal color;
   (4) By gastroscopy, if necessary hemostasis may be executed concurrently with the bleeding spot.
4. What ought t o be done to take good care of an epigastrointestnal tract bleeding patients?
   (1) When the patient is good enough in the recovery process to be allowed food intake, he should firstly be fed with light toned fluid diet, if that’s okay with him, he may resume to normal diet by and by.
   (2) When discharged, the patient may commit himself to suitable sports to the extent permitted by his current condition. He may go for a walk, or do some calisthenic exercises, but that not causing any fatigue.
   (3) Patients suffering from digestive ulcer should quit smoking and temporarily quit drinking beverage containing caffeine such as: coffee, cola and tea.
   (4) Input drugs per medical prescribed recipe (6~8 weeks), but don’t input unauthorized ready for sale drugs or drugs of unknown compositions (analgesic, in particular), lest damage should be done to your gastro-intestinal system.
   (5) Observe for signals for recurrence: in the wake of symptoms such as: vertigo, passing starry stool, belching brown sediments, vomiting blood, send for a doctor immediately.
   (6) Return to the hospital periodically for followup and treatment.

The 21st century is an era of keen competition, when we compete with time. Forget not to slow down your step a little bit, treat your stomach and intestines real nice; build a regular, disciplined living regimen and diet scheme, say no to intemperate eating or drinking habits, and you may rest quiet and undisturbed by epqigastrointestinal tract bleeding the nuisance.