Excessive Stomach Acid

Excessive stomach acid, also known as hyperacidity, is one of the common symptoms of gastrointestinal disorders. A moderate amount of stomach acid can help digestion, but if there is too much stomach acid it can damage the mucous membranes of the stomach and duodenum, causing diseases such as gastric ulcers or duodenal ulcers.

Causes of excess stomach acid: First, cortical dysfunction. When irregular life, mental tension, excessive fatigue, poor mood, a lot of smoking, surgery, serious burns or bacterial infections, cerebral cortical dysfunction, can not be well governed by the nerves of gastric acid secretion, prompting an increase in gastric acid secretion. Second, food stimulation. When too much food is ingested, it stimulates the secretion of stomach acid. Stomach acid normally helps us to digest food, but when we eat too much, we may need to secrete more stomach acid, causing symptoms of hyperacidity. Third, other diseases affect. An example of this is Dreh-Eyre syndrome, also known as gastrinoma. A pancreatic non? cell tumors secrete gastrin, which stimulates acid-secreting B cells, which can lead to high acid secretion and symptoms of hyperacidity.

Symptoms of hyperacidity:

Acid reflux: the acidic contents of the stomach refluxed, often due to excessive secretion of gastric acid, more common in functional dyspepsia, reflux esophagitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers and chronic gastritis. Heartburn: The reflux of acidic contents in the stomach irritates the esophageal mucosa and produces a burning sensation behind the sternum, which is more common in functional dyspepsia, reflux esophagitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, and chronic gastritis. Heartburn (heartburn) when drinking milk or soymilk will aggravate the symptoms, milk and soymilk can be a moment to dilute gastric acid, but its calcium protein will stimulate the secretion of gastric acid, it should not drink more. Heartburn: caused by excessive secretion of gastric acid or increased sensitivity of the gastric mucosa to acid. This symptom is more common in functional dyspepsia, reflux esophagitis, gastric and duodenal ulcer and chronic gastritis. Hyperacidity

Hyperacidity is a chronic condition in which the stomach lacks hydrochloric acid and does not produce enough gastric juice. Underproduction of gastric acid causes the stomach's digestive and absorptive functions to be ineffective, and may lead to certain gastrointestinal disorders in severe cases.

The main causes of too little stomach acid are: First, cortical disorders. The same as the cause of excessive gastric acid secretion, the cerebral cortex disorder can't govern the nerves of gastric acid secretion well, and there is too little gastric acid secretion. Secondly, it is caused by stomach diseases. It may be caused by pernicious anemia, tropical fatty dysentery, chronic gastritis, and atrophic gastritis. For example, atrophic gastritis causes atrophy of the wall glands, which leads to insufficient cellular secretion of hydrochloric acid, which in turn leads to the secretion of too little gastric acid.

Symptoms of too little stomach acid: On the one hand, there is abnormal digestive function. Patients with too little stomach acid are usually accompanied by symptoms of abnormal digestive function, constipation or diarrhea, abdominal bloating, it is easy to iron, zinc and B vitamin deficiency, resulting in iron deficiency anemia and other aspects of the symptoms and performance. In addition, too little stomach acid consumption will also make the food in the body digestion and absorption is not good, easy to ferment in the gastrointestinal tract to produce toxins, easy to long acne, more serious will cause internal intestinal inflammation.