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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...

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...

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,...

“It burns like fire” is the appropriate description of how heartburn becomes noticeable. Burning pains that spread from the pit of the stomach and behind the sternum to the throat or throat are a common folk condition. The sensation of a fire roller arises because gastric...

Greasy, luscious food, which is heavy in the stomach, and on top of it still a digestive liquor – this is a “lovely” program for the stomach, which often leads to heartburn. As long as the symptoms occur only occasionally and disappear spontaneously, they are...