What is Gastritis

Gastritis is a medical term for inflammation of the lining of the stomach. It means that white blood cells move into the wall of the stomach as a response to some type of injury. G...

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A friend of mine is unable to digest any of the food she eats and after going to numerous drs, one wants to put a gastric pacemaker to help with the problem. Does anyone here have one or know anything about it? She's been unable to find any info from anyone having this done. I would appreciate any advice. thanks
Posted on 06/03/09, 10:06 am
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Reply #1 - 06/06/09  9:26am
" I haven't had or heard of these until you posted your question, but I did a search for "device to stimulate gastric" and came up with this link.

http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20...

You might find other links that are helpful as well, but this describes how the device works. It is kind of in techincal speech. Here's another article that specifically mentions gastro paresis.

http://www.gastro.org/wmspage.cfm?...

Best of luck. "
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Reply #2 - 06/07/09  11:33am
" Thank you so much for answering my post! I'll check out both links and want you to know how moved I am that you cared.

God bless you!
dale "

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