Functional dyspepsia is what you’re left with when the upper-gut symptoms are real, persistent and miserable — and the endoscopy comes back clean. It’s defined by four possible symptoms: pain in the upper abdomen, burning in the upper abdomen, uncomfortable fullness after a normal-sized meal, and early satiety, where …
Here’s the thing nobody tells you: indigestion isn’t a diagnosis. It’s a description. The medical term is dyspepsia, and it’s an umbrella covering pain or burning in the upper abdomen, feeling uncomfortably full after normal-sized meals, and getting full after a few mouthfuls. Acid reflux, by contrast, is a …
The short answer: a stomach ulcer is an open sore in the stomach or duodenal lining, so the pain sits in the upper abdomen and often has a relationship with food — classically worse when the stomach is empty, briefly eased by eating, and prone to waking you in …
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The simplest way to separate them is to ask where the trouble is. Gastritis is inflammation of the stomach lining, so the discomfort sits in the upper abdomen — a gnawing, aching or burning in the pit of your stomach, often with nausea, fullness or getting full far too …
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To calm an acid reflux flare-up fast: stand up and stay upright, loosen anything tight around your waist, and take an alginate such as Gaviscon Advance. Alginates are the quickest genuinely effective option because they physically form a raft on top of your stomach contents — scintigraphy showed the …
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Protein powder can cause acid reflux, but here’s the surprise: the protein itself is rarely the problem. Protein is one of the few things shown to tighten the valve at the bottom of your oesophagus. In classic manometry work, a protein meal raised lower oesophageal sphincter pressure by an …
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