How to manage anxiety related stomach pain? - Dr. Sanjay Gupta

Here we are talking about a gastric distress in anxiety conditions. Anxiety is a very broad category where people get lot of palpitation, tremor, blood pressure and people feel nervous in many ways. And also stomach gets affected in many ways and stomach responds like there is a burning sensation or there are butterflies in the stomach, or some say stomach pain, which in combination is called as gastric distress. Gastric distress is a normal phenomenon, but lot of people get worried why they are having this gastric distress. So the first thing is to treat anxiety. Why anxiety can cause gastric distress. So if you treat anxiety as the root cause of anxiety, actually there is no distress. So there are many ways of lowering gastritis with anxiolytics. There are any drugs, but what is preferred is the patients need counseling. We prefer a lifestyle change and challenge the patient over a period of time. So it is a slow process. It is a long term change and it will definitely lead to less gastric distress.