An average healthy dog drinks about 1/2 to 1 ounce of water per pound of body weight per day. The amount of water your dog is drinking is an important piece of information to share with your veterinarian and can help avoid unnecessary testing. Keep in mind that dogs are very sloppy, inefficient drinkers.
Barrett's esophagus overview. Barrett's esophagus is a condition in which the esophagus, the muscular tube that carries food and saliva from the mouth to the stomach, changes so that some of its lining is replaced by a type of tissue similar to that normally found in the intestine. This process is called intestinal metaplasia.
1. Gastric metaplasiaâpatches of gastric type mucous cells interspersed between duodenal cellsâand chronic inflammation at the duodenal bulb mucosa are common findings [1] . The central role of acid and Heliobacter pylori in the development of these lesions is well known [2] , [3] and [4] .. Discussion. Duodenal gastric metaplasia, i.e., the presence of gastric-type mucus-secreting cells in the surface epithelium of the duodenum, is considered as an acquired condition resulting from gastric acid injury [10] .