Diabetic
Gastroparesis is a
disorder of stomach that takes too long to empty its contents. It is
caused by vagus nerve damage; this damage may be due to diabetes.
Gastroparesis
overview
Gastroparesis,
otherwise called as delayed gastric emptying, literally translated it
means “stomach paralysis”. Gastroparesis is a disorder of stomach that
takes too long to empty its contents.
Normally, strong
muscular contraction in a peristaltic waves and squeezes the
food
down into the small intestine for further digestion. But in
gastroparesis, the muscles in the stomach contracts poorly or does not
contract at all, preventing stomach from emptying its content as
expected. Develops into digestion problems, causing nausea and
vomiting, and play havoc with blood sugar levels and nutrition.
Vagus
nerve in the stomach stimulates stomach muscles to move food through
the digestive tract. Gastroparesis is due to vagus nerve damage and
thus muscles of the stomach and intestines do not work normally or does
not work at all. Food then moves slowly or stops moving through the
digestive tract. This vagus nerve damage may be due to long term and
high level of blood glucose level in blood (badly controlled diabetes).
