Question

5. A patient with peptic ulcer disease will be starting medication therapy. He tells the nurse that he smokes and wonders if that will affect his treatment. The nurse's best response would be what?

Answer 1

5. Smoking affects the efficacy of treatment of peptic ulcer disease as according to researchers, smoking appears to be a risk factor for all the aspects; the development, maintenance, and recurrence of peptic ulcer disease. It interferences with the action of histamine-2 antagonists, effects the emptying of gastric liquids, is involved in the promotion of duodenogastric reflux, inhibition of pancreatic bicarbonate secretion, is also affected by it, reduction in mucosal blood flow, is also caused and inhibition of mucosal prostaglandin production also happens, (Eastwood, 1988).