Medical history (history of illness) represents an important component in the diagnosis of gastritis (gastritis).
Family history
- Are there frequent gastrointestinal diseases in your family?
Social history
- Is there any evidence of psychosocial stress or strain due to your family situation?
Current medical history/systemic history (somatic and psychological complaints).
- Do you have frequent abdominal pain?
- Do you feel nauseous more often? Do you have to vomit?
- When does the pain occur? Before eating, during eating, or after eating? Or in no temporal relation to the food intake?
- Do you have to burp more often?
- Do you suffer from a feeling of fullness or loss of appetite?
Vegetative anamnesis incl. nutritional anamnesis.
- Do you eat a balanced diet? Do you eat regularly?
- Have your bowel movements changed in frequency, quantity, color, etc.?
- Do you like to drink coffee, black and green tea? If so, how many cups per day?
- Do you drink other or additional caffeinated beverages? If so, how much of each?
- Do you smoke? If yes, how many cigarettes, cigars or pipes per day?
- Do you drink alcohol? If yes, what drink(s) and how many glasses per day?
- Do you use drugs? If yes, what drugs and how often per day or per week?
Self history incl. medication history.
- Pre-existing conditions (gastrointestinal diseases (eg, Helicobacter pylori infection, Crohn’s disease); infections; autoimmune diseases; food poisoning).
- Operations
- Radiotherapy
- Allergies
Medication history
- NSAIDs (non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs) – especially acetylsalicylic acid (ASA).
- Glucocorticoids – drugs used for allergic reactions and inflammation such as cortisone.
- Cytostatics – drugs used in the treatment of cancer such as methotrexate.
