Stomach acid plays a very important role in the process of digesting food in our stomach, excessive stomach acid that is manifested as a decline in the pH value of the acidity of the stomach, the patient is often manifested: stomach acid, stomach pain, acid reflux, etc., caused by this symptom of the most common diseases for the gastritis, gastric erosion, gastric ulcers, or duodenal ulcers.
The main cause of hyperacidity in the diet is eating too much stimulating food, resulting in more acid secretion. In addition, the stomach is infected with Helicobacter pylori bacteria, which can also cause excessive gastric acid secretion. Therefore, patients need to pay attention.
Vitamin C is a bad acid, must be careful, if the stomach acid is too much, the patient must not supplement excessive vitamin C, because it may induce the body more serious acid secretion.
Long-term large doses of oral vitamin C can cause nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain, diarrhea, hyperacidity, gastric reflux, etc., but also can cause gastric ulcer pain increased or even bleeding.
Dietary care is the most important way to help people relieve hyperacidity.
This requires people to eat more stomach food to help enhance gastric mucous membrane secretion, and better protect the health of gastric disease. The human body's stomach can be in a healthy state to better play the function of the stomach, no longer induced by the excessive secretion of gastric acid. So these can play a stomach food, including pepper, ginger, yam and so on.
Vitamin C in food mainly exists in fresh vegetables, fruits, the body can not synthesize. Fruits such as new dates, sour dates, oranges, hawthorn, lemons, kiwi, sea buckthorn and prickly pear are rich in vitamin C. Vegetables such as green leafy vegetables, green peppers, tomatoes and Chinese cabbage have high content. Patients with hyperacidity who need to supplement vitamin C can eat some of these foods in moderation.
There are also oral acid-suppressing medications to relieve hyperacidity.
Acid suppressants include alkaline antacids, h2 receptor antagonists and proton pump inhibitors. The best acid inhibitors are proton pump inhibitors, which are often referred to as PPIs, including omeprazole, lansoprazole, rabeprazole, epprazole, pantoprazole, esomeprazole and so on.
It is recommended that patients who want to relieve hyperacidity can be diagnosed and treated with an oral pill of the above drugs. However, in order to be safe, it is still recommended that the patient first go to the hospital to improve the electrocardiogram, electronic gastroscopy, c13, c14 breath test and other related examinations, to understand the esophagogastric mucosal lesions, and if necessary, under the guidance of the doctor to give the above drug treatment.
Hyperacidity is a very common condition that can be triggered by poor diet, stomach health problems, and so on in people's daily lives.
As soon as the symptoms appear, you should receive professional treatment, and through specific treatment to better reduce the problem of excessive gastric acid secretion, to protect the human body gastric health, reduce the symptoms, and protect people's quality of life.
In addition, the cold, hard and irritating food on the stomach of the stimulation effect is relatively large, can cause stomach pain, acid reflux and a series of symptoms, we usually have to pay more attention to the stomach.