How long does it take for digestive disorders to get better after conditioning?

There is really no unified standard answer to this question. Most of the mild patients I have come into contact with can basically return to normal in 1-2 weeks. If the disease lasts for a long time, is combined with other problems or has obvious emotional triggers, it may take more than 3 months to stabilize. It is not uncommon to wait for a year or two to fully adjust.

Last month I met a little girl who was in her junior year of college. She stayed up all night for a week to catch up on a competition. She either ordered spicy butter hotpot takeout or drank iced coffee and iced milk tea every day. She had been suffering from stomach upset for almost two weeks. She had a gastrointestinal endoscopy and had a regular bowel movement with no problems. This is a typical digestive disorder caused by a short-term eating disorder. After returning home, I stopped eating spicy food as required, and ate three meals a day at the same time. I applied a hot water bag to my stomach for 15 minutes before going to bed, and then took a week of probiotic conditioning. On the 8th day, I was told that eating fruit at room temperature was no longer uncomfortable, and within two weeks I was completely back to my previous state.

Not everyone has such a fast recovery speed. I recently saw a 42-year-old corporate salesman who has been suffering from stomach pain and bloating after eating for almost 2 years. Before, he took omeprazole and Jianweixiaoshi tablets without any improvement. When he came for examination, he found that he not only had functional indigestion, but also Helicobacter pylori infection. In addition, he was under great pressure from running business all year round and often changed his plan at one or two in the morning. His anxiety had obviously affected the normal feedback of the brain-gut axis. I first gave him Helicobacter pylori eradication treatment, and repeatedly advised him to adjust his work and rest as much as possible so as not to bring his work emotions to mealtimes. He was also given some medicine to promote digestion and regulate mood. After almost four months of adjustment, he finally said that he no longer needed to rub his stomach on the sofa for half an hour after eating, and that he would not panic with acid reflux after eating something greasy.

As for the treatment cycle of this disease, there have been different opinions in the circle. Some people say that as long as you strictly abstain from eating, you will be cured in a week, while others say that the root cause of the disease is emotions. If the anxiety problem is not solved, it will easily relapse after a long period of treatment. In fact, both of these statements are correct, but they are targeted at different people. If you are induced by eating and drinking in a short period of time and staying up for a few nights, then you can indeed recover in a few days if you change your bad habits. However, if you have been having irregular work, rest and eating habits for many years, and you also have obvious emotional stress problems, it is definitely not something that can be solved by just quitting talking, and the recovery period will naturally be much longer.

Speaking of it, our intestines and stomach are really like a sensitive little roommate. If you occasionally forget to feed it, or stuff it with a bunch of cold, spicy and indigestible things, it will get angry and have a tantrum, and you can coax it away in two or three days. Don’t be anxious just because recovery is slow. I’ve seen too many people check their tongues in front of the mirror every day and wonder if they will feel uncomfortable after taking two mouthfuls of food. Instead, their recovery speed is more than twice as slow as other people’s because they are too emotionally tense. Since it is a functional disorder, it is not a major organic problem in itself. If you slowly adjust according to the doctor's instructions and change the bad habits that need to be changed, it will only be a matter of time before things get better.