Heartburn - a burning sensation behind the breastbone, along the esophagus, sometimes quite painful and persistent. This is the result of casting of acidic stomach contents into the esophagus. Usually heartburn it appears after 30 - 60 minutes after a meal, sometimes on an empty stomach.
It happens most often when the stomach acidity, but may also occur in patients with atrophic gastritis with decreased secretion of gastric juice when irritating effect on the mucous membrane of organic acids produced in the stomach in violation of the digestive processes, and bile is thrown out of the gallbladder into the duodenum and then the stomach and esophagus.
- Traditional methods of treatment
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