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Frequent Heartburn
The name heartburn is a bit of a misnomer, as your heart is not affected at all. Frequent is a problem of your digestive system. The burn part of the name is all too accurate. When you have heartburn, you have a burning sensation in your chest, usually behind your breastbone, and up your throat. This burning sensation is your stomach acids going up your esophagus. This annoying and obtrusive burning can make life miserable for anyone afflicted. This happens often after eating and can go on for hours, making sleeping a difficulty and leading a normal life practically impossible.
You're Not Alone
The National Alliance reports that at least 50 million Americans suffer from frequent heartburn. It is a common complaint, especially with modern processed foods and a high stress, low-exercise lifestyles. You don t have to be a certain age to get frequent heartburn, but it does usually begin when you reach your twenties. When you were a kid, your digestive system was a lot more resilient. Now, you have to watch what you eat like a hawk.
Frequent is a terrible annoyance, which if left untreated, can lead to many other health problems. But
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it is often easy to treat with diet and lifestyle changes as well as new prescription and over the counter medicines. If you have frequent for over two weeks, contact your doctor. The sooner you are diagnosed with frequent heartburn, the sooner it can be treated.
Compensatory Behaviors
Perhaps you ve gotten into some habits to avoid the recurrences of frequent and thus try to ignore your problem. Such habits include:
Sitting up for a half hour after eating or drinking
Purposefully avoiding spicy foods
Drinking a carbonated drink immediately after eating to make you burp and get some relief
Wearing looser clothing and avoiding all belts or girdles
You take over the counter medication before eating, sleeping and exercising
If you are doing two or more of these behaviors, you have frequent heartburn. Do yourself a favor. Go to the doctor. Although you can get great temporary relief from some over the counter medication, you can actually damage your digestive lining if you take too much of it for too long. Getting the medication that can target your frequent will save you time, money and sleepless nights in the long run.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with severe asthma who are allergic to fungal organisms benefit substantially from treatment with the anti-fungal drug itraconazole, new research shows.
Childhood abuse linked to chronic fatigue syndrome
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research confirms that emotional and sexual abuse in childhood are important risk factors for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Teens on MySpace often share risky information
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many adolescent users of the social networking site MySpace include information in their profiles that could put their health in jeopardy in one way or another, new research published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows.
Brain circuit disturbances may underlie bulimia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Reduced activity in the part of the brain that helps a person exert appropriate self-control may contribute to the binge-purge syndrome bulimia nervosa, research published today suggests.
Prenatal test may raise birthmark risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A test performed in early pregnancy to check for genetic defects such as Down's syndrome in the fetus appears to be linked to increased chances that the baby will be born with a birthmark, or "infantile hemangioma," researchers report.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A low-carbohydrate diet such as the familiar Atkins diet improves control of blood sugar levels in obese individuals with type 2 diabetes, researchers have shown.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the months before a heart attack or episode of severe angina requiring emergency treatment, only a small percentage of people seek medical attention for precursor symptoms such as fatigue and shortness of breath, Canadian researchers report.
Pneumonia from health care contact often fatal
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The severity of illness and the mortality rate in people with pneumonia resulting from a recent outpatient contact with the health care system is higher than pneumonia acquired in the community setting, physicians in Italy report.
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