Information Heartburn - Definition, Causes, Symptoms

Definition 

Heartburn (indigestion) is a term describing the pain that comes from the stomach, intestine, or even the esophagus due to a number of conditions. Other designations of heartburn is dyspepsia.

Heartburn can be caused by many things, including the result of a wound that appear on the inside lining of the stomach (gastric ulcer), Helicobacter pylori bacterial infection, the effects of the use of the nonsteroid anti-inflammatory drugs (OAINS), and stress.

Although most heartburn could be addressed without the need to consult the doctor, but an examination of medical doctors still needs to be done if the heartburn is accompanied by vomiting frequently you become, you become difficult to swallow and experience weight loss.

If you are proven to be heartburn, then the doctor will prescribe the drug. Some examples of drugs that may be used to cope with heartburn is a antasida receptor antagonist, H2 (H2RA), proton pump inhibitor (PPI), a alginat, antibiotic, antidepressant drugs, and prokinetik.

Heartburn include common diseases in the world. According to the data made at endoscopy centres there are around 7000 cases of gastritis with 86.4% of that amount is a functional dyspepsia. Functional dyspepsia is heartburn condition of unknown cause. Read Food Recommendations for Diabetics

Causes

Disease-causing heartburn is excess acid production in the stomach by causing irritation in the mucous membrane of the stomach. Under normal circumstances the digestive acid needed to help in changing the foods that we eat. But the acid production in the stomach can be greater than required when unhealthy patterns of our lives.

Here are some conditions that can cause heartburn, including:

• Peptic ulcers (open sores that appear on the inside lining of the stomach)

• Helicobacter pylori bacterial infection

• Obesity

• Eating too fast

• Eating too much

• Eating fatty, greasy foods, and spicy

• Consuming too much caffeine, soda, or alcoholic beverages

• Eating too much chocolate

• Side effects of use non-steroid anti-inflammatory drugs (such as aspirin) and the nitrate medication

• Gastroesofagus reflux disease (gastric acid turning movement toward the esophagus)

• Smoke

• Constipation

In addition to the above conditions, heartburn can also occur due to complications from a disease. Examples of diseases that can cause heartburn is the gallstone disease, inflammation of the pancreas (pancreatitis), disease intestinal ischemia (decreased blood flow in the gut), bowel obstruction, celiac disease, disease hernia hiatus (part of the stomach protrudes into the diaphragm), and gastric cancer.

Symptoms 

Among the large number of people in the world there are certainly are experiencing disease ulcer. With the large number of cases of people affected by the disease ulcer that appears of course provide more vigilance to everyone about this ulcer disease simply attacking someone's body digestive. Therefore we will tell some of the symptoms of heartburn:

• A sense of heat in the upper abdomen

• Nausea/Vomiting

• Bloating in the upper abdomen

• Reflux (food return or fluid from the stomach to the esophagus)

• Heartburn or sense heat and pain in middle of chest (sometimes feels to your back and neck) that appears when or after eating

Heartburn symptoms are accompanied by a sense of heat in the chest due to the rising of stomach acid into the esophagus, is a case of heartburn that often occur.

For patients with heartburn, symptoms will usually get worse if himself also experience stress. Aside from stress, the entry of air through the mouth when eating food can also cause stomach bloating and frequency of saltpeter is getting increased. Read The Best Source of Carbohydrates in Food

This is an explanation of diseases heartburn. May be useful for you.