GERD (Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease) part 1 Symptoms and Causes

Nowadays, many people around the world are facing and suffering from GERD, better known as Acid Reflux Disease and it is considered as severe and chronic disease. This kind of disease can show the following different symptoms.

1 Heartburn: a burning pain or discomfort that may move from your stomach to your abdomen or chest, or even up to your throat, this symptom is very common of the patient with such a disease and unfortunately in the very severe case the gas could re-flux from the small intestine through the stomach, esophagus and even the upper esophagus near the pharynx . That is because the lower and upper sphincter which prevents the gas or acid  re-fluxing   from the small intestine and stomach don’t work well any more. Moreover there are the minor or unfamiliar symptoms and those are:

2 Bloating

3 Bloody or black stools or bloody vomiting

4 Burping

5 Dysphagia -- a narrowing of your esophagus, which creates the sensation of food being stuck in your throat

6 Hiccups that don't let up

7 Nausea

8 Weight loss for no known reason

9 Wheezing, dry cough, hoarseness, or chronic sore throat

10 Regurgitation: a sour or bitter-tasting acid backing up into your throat or mouth

Why the sphincters are abnormal and don’t work properly any more?

From many researches or studies the unsuitable work of both parts leading to acid re-flux caused by the long several wrong activities from the past to the present without paying attention to their health behaviors, the followings may be among them.

1 Eating too large meals make the stomach expand into the sphincters so they were enlarged and loosed unexpectedly and then the strong gas or acid could pass easily through them and harm by burning both the stomach and esophagus, which is the main cause of this symptom.

Eating a lot of each meal makes the stomach cannot digest foods and produce much more acid or gas up to the esophagus.

2 Lying down immediately after the meal mentioned above

3 Being overweight or obese

4 Eating a heavy meal and lying on your back or bending over at the waist

5 Snacking or any others close to bedtime

6 Having some foods leading to the symptoms, such as citrus, tomato, chocolate, mint, garlic, onions, or spicy or fatty foods

7 Often drinking certain beverages, such as alcohol, carbonated drinks, coffee, or tea

Smoking

8 Being pregnant

9 Having taken some of medicines too long time, such as aspirin, ibuprofen, certain muscle relaxers, or blood pressure medications

The remarked above are the general symptoms and causes which the patients are often facing sometime may be severe, mediate and/or small. However the real patients of acid reflux will have those at least every two day a week or more often than that. If so, they are having the disease and should be received the suitable or right cure as soon as possible because this can cause the cancer to some organic inside their body, such as esophagus, liver and stomach.

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