In daily life, I wonder if you often feel heartburn because you eat too fast or too much, or when you eat certain foods such as wine, peppers, or a burning sensation in your upper abdomen or lower chest?
It was as if something was lying there, in short, indescribably uncomfortable.
In fact, heartburn is a disease, but it is not a heart disease, it is burning the esophagus.
Reflux esophagitis refers to symptoms such as belching acid reflux, heartburn pain, and difficulty swallowing caused by excessive stomach and duodenal contents reflux into the esophagus. Gastroscopy is manifested as erosion and ulceration of the esophageal mucosa, generally in the elderly, obese, smoking, drinking and mental stress as the high incidence of people, both men and women can be sick.
In addition to the typical "reflux" and "heartburn", reflux esophagitis may also have the following symptoms:
1. Chest pain: caused by stimulation of the esophagus by reflux, occurs behind the sternum. In severe cases, it may be a sharp tingling, may radiate to the back of the chest, shoulders and neck, behind the ears, sometimes like angina, with or without heartburn and reflux.
2. Dysphagia or retrosternal foreign body sensation: due to esophageal spasm or dysfunction, symptoms are intermittent, eating solid or liquid food can occur, a small number of patients dysphagia is caused by esophageal stenosis, showing continuous or progressive exacerbation.
3. Extraesophageal symptoms: including no seasonal onset of nocturnal asthma, cough, hoarseness after waking up, otitis media, etc. In addition, if gastric fluid regurgitates into the respiratory tract, it may also cause recurrent aspiration pneumonia.
What are the dangers?
1. Inability to concentrate, work and study efficiency decline sharply;
2. After every time you eat fragrant and drink spicy, there will be heartburn, acid reflux, and bad food;
3, in the middle of the night always acid reflux, sleep is not good.
Is lifestyle improvement useful?
Domestic multi-center studies have found that drug treatment simultaneously corrects poor dietary lifestyle, and the symptom relief rate (94.1%) will be significantly higher than that of those who did not correct the poor lifestyle alone (85.9%).
In fact, lifestyle adjustment is also part of clinical treatment. Currently commonly used clinical lifestyle improvement recommendations are:
1. Bring some coarse grains instead of polished rice noodles
At this time, you may wish to come to a little coarse grain, such as brown rice, quinoa, a small amount of miscellaneous legumes.
2. Fry food and meat, eat less
Fat stimulates the secretion of cholecystokinin, causing gastric emptying to delay and bile reflux.
3. Drink some slightly cool vegetable juice
When you feel "heartburned", making vegetables and fruits into a slightly cool vegetable juice can effectively relieve discomfort.
4. Replace rice with noodles and lotus flour
During the acute onset of reflux esophagitis, you should eat fewer and more meals, and try to use clear liquid foods as much as possible.
In addition, weight loss can significantly reduce the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux patients, and if the BMI drops by more than 3.5, the symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux patients are significantly reduced regardless of whether drug treatment is used or not.
Secondly, raise the head of the bed, raise the head slightly before going to bed, about 15 cm higher than the bed surface, which can significantly shorten the acid exposure time of the esophagus and effectively control the symptoms of reflux.
Finally, Dr. Yao warmly reminds
1. If you occasionally regurgitate acid, you should pay attention to adjusting your diet, eat less sweets, especially avoid eating sweets on an empty stomach. Do not consume difficult, high-fat foods at once and in large quantities.
2. If the acid is often reversed, the pathological condition should be considered, and further examination must be carried out to find out the cause and receive treatment.