4 tips to fight back stomach discomfort
2021-11-02#News & Events
The civilized illness of modern people
Enjoying food is one of the great pleasures of life, while the digestive process after eating is very complicated, since the stomach plays an important role in breaking down, absorption and the storage of food. Common gastrointestinal diseases include acute gastritis, chronic gastritis, gastric bleeding, gastric ulcer, gastric spasm, gastroesophageal reflux, duodenal ulcer, etc. If you drink too much alcohol, smoke, live under pressure, have an irregular work and life cycle, all of these could become causes of stomach diseases. Aside from bloating stomach and abdominal pain, such habit may lead to anemia and bone health problems over time and may even turn into gastric cancer.
According to the survey, the prevalence of peptic ulcers in Taiwan is 10%, and one out of four people has gastroesophageal reflux problem; the annual consumption of gastrointestinal medication is even as high as 2.2 billion pieces. A long-term use of gastrointestinal medication can cause changes in the pH balance of the stomach and loss of bactericidal ability, leading to overgrowth of gastrointestinal bacteria, increasing the chance of bad bacteria invasion, or excessive secretion of stomach acid, which can lead to other health problems such as chronic gastritis.
Simple identification of gastric pain symptoms
Everyone has had the experience of stomach discomfort, and the first reaction often comes with a sense of pain. In fact, different stomach diseases would come with different symptoms, for instance, the general stomach pain may trigger the pain in the upper abdomen; gastroesophageal reflux comes with a phenomenon of heartburn, foreign body sensation in the throat and difficulty in swallowing; gastric ulcer, on the other hand, refers to an ulcer of the gastric mucosa caused by Helicobacter pylori infection, long-term tobacco or alcohol consumption, or high mental stress, which causes regular pain in the upper abdomen after eating for a period of time. On the contrary, duodenal ulcer would come with an abdominal pain felt when hungry and would gradually goes away after eating.
Any cause of the stomach disease may be accompanied by abdominal pain, vomiting, weight loss and other problems, so you can learn to simply distinguish which kind of gastric pain they belong to. If you have been taking stomach medicine for a period of time and the symptoms still do not improve, you must go to the doctor to solve the problem from its roots, in order to avoid more severe health damage.
Tips to protect the stomach
Frequent stomach discomfort can significantly affect our daily life, work status and sleep quality. In order to alleviate the disturbance brought by stomach disorders, we may try to make changes in our daily life to develop a healthy body function and make our life more comfortable and carefree.
1. Regular diet time
The physiological organs perform their best functions at different hours in a day, and each body will operate at a fixed time to detoxify the waste. Irregular eating habits can easily disrupt the physiological clock and put a burden on the stomach to digest, thus causing flatulence or indigestion. Therefore, developing a regular time of diet can bring positive effects on our health conditions.
2. Attention to dietary choices
Focus the diet on light, soft, low-irritation foods. Avoid spicy, fried food, tea, coffee, sweets or other indigestible foods such as glutinous rice and rice cakes, which can help reduce the burden on the stomach.
3. chewing food with care
Chew the food carefully, grind it and mix it with saliva so that the food can be better digested into the stomach. Chewing slowly can stimulate the nerves to convey a sense of satiety, avoid eating too much that may cause stomach discomfort.
4. Keep your mood happy
The emotional changes due to busy work, anxiety and pressure can easily aggravate the symptoms of stomach pain, so it is important to keep a happy and stable mood and avoid stress and anxiety in order to stabilize the condition and not to repeat it.
