General Nursing©

ULCERS

Note if certain visitors or telephone calls agitate the person. Discourage this visit or calls until the person improves. Encourage people who attempt to carry in their work routine (despite prescribed bed rest) to schedule physical and mental relaxation.

Discourage business phone calls and correspondence. Explore ways, with the person and significant others or coworkers, of temporarily reducing work responsibilities. Helping people with ulcers cope with psychosocial problems is a vital part of intervention. Take time to learn about their stressors. Discussing coping and relaxation techniques may enable people to better deal with their problems.

• Smokers have several times the frequency of ulcer than do non-smokers. Smoking causes constriction (tightening) of the small vessels, and that prevents adequate nourishment to the wall of then stomach.
• Diets that have pepper or spices usually don't play very much of the role; but irregular meal habits, by preventing the buffering (neutralization) of the acid by food, offer can result in a dietary contribution to the problem. The diet must meet basic nutritional needs. Because an empty stomach stimulates gastric acid secretion, advise the person to avoid this by eating small amount at frequent, regular intervals.

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