Determination and treatment of acidity of the stomach.
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The acidity of the stomach is a disease that causes a lot of unpleasant sensations for a person. Therefore, this requires immediate treatment. Let's figure out how to get rid of this unpleasant symptom.
How to determine the acidity of the stomach at home yourself?
In the stomach of each person there is hydrochloric acid. It is considered the main component of gastric juice. Acid helps to process food so that it gradually mixes in the stomach and penetrates through the pyloric sphincter into the duodenum.
Also, this acid is also able to perform other mandatory functions that are important for the human body:
- Thanks to it, the processing and monitor of the protein in the cavity of the stomach occurs. As a result of which splitting becomes much easier
- Activates pepsinogen, which then become pepsins
- Creates an acidic environment due to which the enzymes of the stomach function
- Activates pancreatic secretion
- With the help of hydrochloric acid, gastric juice works normally
The level of acid in the juice of the stomach is determined due to the acidity of the stomach. This level has some norms. And, they ate they deviate, a person is disturbed by discomfort.
A person cannot protect himself from nervous disorders, stresses that can bring both large and minor problems. The rapid pace of life very often does not leave free time to observe proper and regular nutrition. Such loads can affect the gastric juice and its acidity, change it in any direction. Therefore, if nothing is changed in life, you can harm your own health.
Low or high acidity suggests that a chronic disease has occurred - gastritis. How can you independently determine acidity? Depending on the number of free acid, the human body can respond differently to various foods. Many of these products make pain less, eliminate discomfort. And there are those due to which the pain increases, overall well-being worsens.
- Lemon. If you have low acidity, you probably adore the lemon and eat it without even frowning. In addition, you eat them daily. After one slice, you feel a pleasant aftertaste for yourself. If you have high acidity, then this fruit seems very sour. You, even recalling lemon, shudder.
- Baking soda. To check, take warm water (100 g) and food soda (1 tsp). Mix the components, drink if you have severe heartburn, sour belching, hungry pain in the stomach. The resulting tool will be able to neutralize the effect of hydrochloric acid, reduce pain and discomfort.
- Apple juice. This juice provokes severe pains, especially if you drink it on an empty stomach. Similar signs appear even if you eat a sour apple on an empty stomach. If this happens to you, then you have a high acidity of gastric juice. If unpleasant feelings do not bother you, this is normal. If you constantly want to eat sour fruit or citrus fruit, then you have a small acidity.
- Water porridge with butter. If you have high acidity, such porridge will cause you heartburn.
Always remember that determining the acidity of the house is only a recommendation. But, the data obtained will help you find out the exact results, and then contact the doctor for further treatment.
Signs of high acidity of the stomach: Description
Often, the acidity of the stomach increases due to malnutrition. The irregular intake of food, food “dry”, the use of spices, spices, carbonated drinks cause excessive formation of acidic cells in the stomach. Such a pathology can be for those people who eat a lot of protein.
Below we presented you a description of signs of high acidity.
- Heartburn. Heartburn is a burning sensation that occurs in the area of \u200b\u200bthe epigastrium and chest. Often this symptom can appear due to meat products, eggs, fatty, acidic food. Heartburn can still be provoked by mint sweets or chewing gum. Heartburn becomes stronger in a lying position, and decreases or disappears if a person drinks soda solution, warm milk or water, as they lower the acidity.
- Pain. As a rule, the pain appears a couple of hours after eating, has a real character. Basically, the pain is present in the left hypochondrium. In some cases, the patient is concerned about colic, spasms and constipation.
- Nausea, gag reflex, vomiting. Nausea occurs after an excess of simple -digested food. After vomiting, the pain decreases because the acidic contents are eliminated.
In addition, the patient may bother the following manifestations:
- Constipation that occurs due to spastic actions in the digestive tract
- Belching, rather acidic, arising after eating
- In the oral cavity, the presence of sour taste
- In the center of the tongue is a white or grayish-white raid
Appetite with increased acidity, as a rule, does not change, may even increase. However, with severe pains, he is able to deteriorate. As a result, body weight decreases, some patients have a pronounced thinness.
Signs of low acidity of the stomach: Description
With normal acidity, products from pathogenic microorganisms and other harmful components are disinfected. If the acidity is reduced, inflammation of the gastric mucosa often occurs. As a result, the following signs may appear:
- Dragging regular belching. Because of it, there is unpleasant odor from the oral cavity. Sometimes the patient is worried about a putrefactive belching
- Flatulence. Appears due to a strongly manifested fermentation process. Gases that accumulate in the stomach provoke severe pain in the intestine and a sense of bursting
- The patient is very often worried about heartburn
- With reduced acidity, pain appears in the area of \u200b\u200bthe right hypochondrium
- Pain that manifest at the end of eating. They are developing, as a rule, very quickly at lunchtime. Place of Localization of Pain - Pupa region
- Intestinal disorders. It occurs due to the fact that pathogens penetrate into the digestive tract. As a rule, the patient has diarrhea. There are other variations of intestinal disorders, for example, motor failures, as a result of which feces become denser, a person is worried
Evidence that a person has low acidity is weak immunity. This occurs for the following reason: hydrochloric acid is lacking in the stomach, due to which the proteins do not decay completely, they accumulate, and over time rot. After a certain period of time, toxic substances are formed that poison the human body and provoke a deterioration in general well -being.
Vitamins and other useful components that come with food are not absorbed. They become not enough, which provokes the occurrence of organs performance failures. Therefore, the skin becomes dry, the nails grow slower, the hair breaks, we seize. Uacks, dilated vessels appear on the skin of the face. It is difficult to identify a pathology yourself. But, if the patient carefully monitors these symptoms, he will still succeed.
How to determine the acidity of the stomach by blood test?
In order to determine the acidity of the stomach by using a blood test, the doctors conduct a test. Thanks to him, they determine biochemistry in the stomach, reveal the number of pepsinogens, serum sneaks, as well as the presence of antibodies and urea nitrogen.
If after this test deviations from normal indicators are detected, doctors may advise other examinations.
- Pass urine to the degree of staining. Currently, this method is not often used, as it shows inaccurate results and in itself is ineffective.
- Sounding of the stomach. During this method, the stomach juice is collected using a rubber probe.
- rN metric method. It is carried out using the probe, but without collecting gastric juice. Today they conduct intravenous and esophageal pH metria.
The best method is the latter. He can provide the most accurate results, is considered more effective.
Slightening is not used so often, especially in the presence of some important contraindications. So, for example, zoning cannot be carried out:
- Pregnant.
- With bleeding in the stomach.
- During diabetes, renal and pulmonary disease.
In addition, sounding sometimes causes injuries of the stomach and impaired its functionality.
Due to increased acidity, the stomach often hurts, and a strong burning sensation is felt from the stomach to the larynx. If earlier I was saved by antacids, today I eliminate the symptoms, removing the reason, in the morning after a day taking Rabeprazol-SZ.
Due to constantly increased acidity, coughing all the time, sore throat, bitterness in my mouth in the morning, I feel burning in the stomach area, but rarely, more often hurts. There is no “classic” heartburn, or rather it is very rare. They also prescribed Rabeprazol-SZ. First, daily, then after a day. Now 1-2 capsules per week are already enough so that it is not tormented.