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It’s not stress or spicy foods that causes an ulcer, though it’s generally a good idea to avoid stress and spicy foods if your body has trouble tolerating them. An ulcer is actually caused by inflammation that develops into a sore that breaks through the protective mucus layer of the stomach lining.

“Once the protective wall erodes away, a pit forms, and that’s where an ulcer is,” says Matthew Hoscheet, MD, a gastroenterologist at the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio. “Since the sore develops where the protective lining has eroded, it is constantly irritated by stomach acid, which can make eating feel very painful.”

The most common ulcers are duodenal ulcers, which are in the small intestine, followed by stomach ulcers. Collectively, these are known as peptic ulcers — named for pepsin, a digestive fluid found in the stomach and the small intestine.

Peptic ulcers affect nearly four million people around the world annually; and will affect up to 1 in every 10 people at some point in their life, according to an analysis published in August 2022 in PLoS One that looked at two decades of records from the Global Burden of Disease Study.

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