Heartburn - causes and consequences

Heartburn is a burning sensation behind the sternum, which arises from the irritation of the mucosa of the esophagus with gastric juice. Most often, the cause of heartburn is a problem that is directly related to the digestive tract (due to the increase in the acidic environment of the stomach).

Causes of heartburn

The main causes that can lead to adverse effects of heartburn:

• smoking and alcohol abuse;
• great psycho-emotional stress;
• heavy physical exertion, often associated with work or training in the gym;
• chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, nervous system;
• pregnancy;
• diseases of the cardiovascular system (angina, arterial hypertension);
• increased intra-abdominal pressure;
• gastritis , gastric ulcer.

Also, the causes of heartburn include eating fatty foods, chocolate.

During the diet, you can also visit this symptom. The cause, which can lead to adverse consequences, including heartburn, during a diet, is an improperly composed diet. To do this, you must always contact a dietician, or follow the following rules, add something to your diet menu:

1. You need to eat 5-6 times during the day, at least.
2. The diet should consist of fruits (banana, apple) and vegetables (baked potatoes, cabbage, green peas).
3. In the morning, you need to eat oatmeal with the addition of dried fruits, cooked on milk.
4. Drink mineral water, milk, juice, compote.
5. Exclude orange, lemon, lime, cheese, coffee.

Consequences of heartburn

Heartburn may occur along with other symptoms. They are intertwined with each other. Against the background of heartburn, you may experience belching and nausea. In addition to discomfort in the sternum and abdomen, you will feel an unpleasant sour or bitter taste in your mouth. If weakness, fatigue, loss of appetite, vomiting and stools with a trace of blood are added to this symptomatology, you should urgently consult a doctor. Perhaps heartburn is a symptom of an ulcer or other stomach disease that requires an urgent diagnosis and treatment.

Causes of Heartburn in Pregnant Women

Very often a pregnant woman has heartburn. There are many reasons that can lead to adverse effects of heartburn during pregnancy, namely:

• ejection of stomach contents into the esophagus and irritation of the esophagus wall (increased gastric acidity);
• compression of the internal organs by the fetus when the body is bent or bent;
• macrosomia (large fetus) is also the cause of heartburn. Because of the large size and weight of the fetus, the internal organs of the woman are squeezed.

Treating heartburn

After the source of occurrence of heartburn is revealed, it is necessary to start treatment of the causes and consequences of pathology. There are many ways to get rid of this symptom, but consider the most effective:

1. You need to drink a glass of water during heartburn, if not, then drink an antacid;
2. Help Almagel, Fosfalugel , Omez, Gastal;
3. During treatment it is necessary to follow a strict diet.

There are also folk remedies for heartburn that will help to eliminate the causes and consequences of its occurrence. Recommended:

1. There is an apple with a skin, it will reduce the acidity of the stomach.
2. Chew for a couple of minutes a few grains of barley or oats, while chewing swallow saliva.
3. Drink the juice from the pear, mango.
4. Drink tea with cinnamon, ginger.

If you strictly follow the above rules, thoroughly chew food, refuse chips, crackers, spicy, smoked, salted, fried and fatty foods and eat when you are hungry, you can forget about what heartburn is for a long time.