With the accelerating pace of life nowadays, the colorful lifestyle, the irregularity of people's diet, work and rest as well as the reduction of the amount of exercise, many people suffer from gastric diseases. And the excessive secretion of stomach acid is one of the common causes of stomach disease, so what are the symptoms of excessive stomach acid? And how to control it? Today we will give you an introduction:

Symptoms of excessive secretion of stomach acid:

1. Acid reflux, belching: many people may have this feeling, usually occasional burping at the same time there will be a sour taste in the mouth, a situation called belching in medicine. At the same time in the sleep due to the lying posture and the stomach sphincter dysfunction, will also make the stomach acid into the esophagus and mouth, known as acid reflux, this situation in the sleep can be appropriate to cushion the pillow or raise the head of the bed to relieve.

2. Heartburn: With the reflux of stomach acid into the esophagus to stimulate the esophageal mucosa, the patient will feel burning pain in the chest, commonly known as "heartburn".

3. Stomach pain: long-term excess stomach acid will corrode the gastric mucosa and duodenal mucosa, which will lead to gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, pain symptoms. In general, duodenal ulcers are often hunger pains, while gastric ulcers are common in postprandial pain. Peptic ulcers are characterized by recurrent epigastric pain over time. The whole course of the disease averages 6 to 7 years, some can be up to one or two decades, or even longer. In addition to epigastric pain, peptic ulcer can also have increased salivary secretion, heartburn, regurgitation, nausea, vomiting and other gastrointestinal symptoms.

How is hyperacidity controlled?

1. Lifestyle intervention: Develop regular eating and sleeping habits, avoid spicy and irritating foods, late nights, excessive smoking and drinking. Appropriate exercise to enhance physical fitness and maintain a good physical and mental state. Normally, you can eat more coarse grains, such as sweet potatoes, corn, taro, etc., because coarse grains contain more starch and crude fiber material, which can neutralize some of the stomach acid.

2. Medications: There are three main types of medications available: (1) drugs that inhibit gastric acid secretion, such as proton pump inhibitors. (2) direct neutralization of gastric acid drugs: such as compound aluminum hydroxide, sodium bicarbonate tablets, etc.; (3) gastric mucosa protection drugs: magnesium aluminum carbonate tablets, colloidal bismuth pectin, etc..

Many factors can cause excessive gastric acid secretion, but must not be ignored some rare diseases such as gastrinoma, so it is still recommended to go to the regular hospital for examination, to understand the causes of excessive gastric acid secretion, and then symptomatic treatment, is the best way to control excessive gastric acid.