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Heartburn: prevention

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Most people are plagued by heartburn only after a particularly sumptuous meal, extensive drinking or stress. In fact, an unhealthy lifestyle is the most common cause of heartburn – and thus a particularly promising treatment approach: Avoid nicotine and alcohol. Both pleasure foods favor heartburn through multiple mechanisms. Among other...
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Heartburn: Medications

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What helps against heartburn, when home remedies fail, or the complaints occur frequently? The answer: medicines from the pharmacy. They are partly over-the-counter, sometimes prescription-only. Essentially, the following groups of active ingredients are used for the treatment of heartburn or reflux disease. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are the...
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What Exactly Heartburn is ?

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Under heartburn , many people suffer after enjoying sumptuous food or alcohol. Gastric acid flows upwards into the esophagus and irritates the mucous membrane. Symptoms such as burning pain and a pressure sensation behind the sternum are the consequences. If the reflux (reflux) of stomach acid happens only occasionally,...
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Heartburn: causes and possible diseases

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Heartburn or reflux disease often results from a dysfunction of the sphincterbetween the esophagus and the stomach. Normally, the so-called lower esophageal sphincter ensures that the stomach contents can not rise into the esophagus. Why he sometimes does not work properly, often remains unclear. However, several factors may...