Eat without consuming what medicine to help?

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Indigestion, also known as dyspepsia, is a very common digestive disorder. This condition makes you feel full or uncomfortable in the stomach during and after meals. So eat without consuming any medicine to help?

1. Recognizing signs of indigestion


Stomach bloating while eating: It is a condition in which you feel too full right after you start eating. After that, it was not possible to continue eating.
Symptoms of being too full after a meal: You will feel that food is in your stomach for too long, there is no feeling of hunger even though you have eaten many hours before.
Symptoms of pain in the stomach area or pain just below the chest: You need to distinguish this symptom from heartburn. Because heartburn is caused by stomach acid rising in the esophagus, along with a sharp pain in the chest, and then spreading to the neck and back.
In addition, indigestion also has other symptoms such as nausea, flatulence, discomfort in the stomach, sour taste in the mouth, ...

2. What are the causes of indigestion?


Indigestion has many causes. However, it is mainly caused by the abnormal movement that occurs during the digestion of food by the stomach muscles and the passage of food to the duodenum.
In addition, indigestion can be caused by a number of drugs such as pain relievers, antibiotics, birth control pills, steroids, etc. Especially in pregnant women, especially when the fetus is large, they often have indigestion.
Besides, indigestion is also a manifestation of a number of more dangerous diseases such as: stomach and duodenal ulcers, acid reflux - esophagitis, stomach infections, irritable bowel syndrome, etc. chronic pancreatitis , thyroid disease .

3. What medicine should be used to treat indigestion?


Indigestion is a typical symptom to recognize some diseases in the gastrointestinal tract such as stomach ulcers, gastroesophageal reflux disease or stomach cancer. Indigestion can be caused by eating too much starch, fat, eating too fast, ... or by poor digestion, reduced gastric motility,... for help?
Use antacid, anti-acid and anti-flatulence drugs: This drug is used when suffering from indigestion, flatulence caused by excess gastric acid such as maalox plus, phosphalugel, gasvicon, pepsan,... Medicines This has the effect of neutralizing acid and anti-flatulence in the stomach. H2 receptor antagonists (ranitidine), proton pump inhibitors such as omeprazole, lansoprazole can be used. When eating with indigestion and full stomach accompanied by heartburn symptoms due to gastroesophageal reflux, you should take more medicines that contain alginate (gasvicon) as an ingredient. Alginate ingredients have the effect of protecting the esophageal mucosa, preventing gastric acid from damaging the esophagus. Using drugs to help regulate stomach contractions: Some drugs that can be used include: metoclopramide, domperidone (motilium - M),... These drugs are used when the stomach has poor contractions, making the stomach awake. Food passes from the stomach to the small intestine more slowly than usual. Use of drugs to help digestion: You can use digestive enzymes to help digest food in the stomach more easily such as neopeptin, alipase, festal,... In addition, you can use more supportive drugs. bile secretion (chophytol). Indigestion is a common symptom in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract of the human body. This symptom can be caused by many different causes, adversely affecting health. In case if this condition persists, the use of oral drugs does not bring good results, the patient should go to medical facilities to be checked by a doctor.
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