Acidity, in fact, increased not in the stomach, but in gastric juice, that is, the excess percentage of hydrochloric acid in gastric juice. Normal is the indicator - 0,4-0,5%, any deviation is called increased or decreased acidity. Today we will talk about the causes of increased acidity, as well as a diet for lowering the acidity of the stomach.
Causes
Whatever gastrointestinal ailments are caught in your path, the reason is always the same - the errors in your diet and eating habits. Oily, fried, salted, peppery, spicy food - all this is too much weight for our food tract, especially when it's not a one-time "feast during the plague," but is your "normal" diet on an ongoing basis. How do you soften the composition of your dishes? Regularity of meals - skip breakfast , because we lose weight, at lunch - a light snack, and dinner - before bedtime, dense, so that it slept well.
So it comes to the need to sit on a diet with increased acidity of the stomach.
What happens with increased acidity of the stomach?
When food gets into your stomach, digestion begins with the help of gastric juice. If the concentration of hydrochloric acid is increased, you feel heartburn. In case if the food that got into the stomach belongs to that category of food, the digestion of which takes a long time, the feeling of heartburn will be prolonged for a long time.
Not only because of unpleasant sensations it is necessary to be engaged in your high acidity - hydrochloric acid corrodes the mucous membrane of the esophagus, and this leads to gastritis and ulcers.
Proceeding from this, we conclude that in order to avoid the unpleasant consequences of high acidity ( heartburn , bitter and sour eructations, constipation and burning in the stomach), the food we consume should be as quickly as possible digested and leave the stomach. It is on this principle and the diet is made with increased acidity.
Menu
The first dishes - exclude any rich soups, especially, this applies to the mushroom broth. People with high acidity are useful in vegetable and mucous soups (with the use of cereals). In order for the enveloping effect of the mucous soup to be maximal, the croup should be ground beforehand. Also recommended are soups-purees from vegetables, fruits and milk-cream dressings.
The second course - meat and fish should be stewed, boiled, steamed. You can cook soufflé from ground meat, steam cutlets. Recommended for use: beef, veal, turkey, rabbit, chicken. All egg dishes are suitable for increased acidity, except for fried eggs. Omelettes can bake in the oven, boil hard-boiled eggs, soft-boiled.
From cheeses it is necessary to exclude sharp and smoked grades, all the others (especially fused ones) will not harm you.
In vegetables and fruits should refrain from marinades and canned food. Both those, and others, contain flavoring agents, emulsifiers and preservatives - this does not contribute to the normalization of digestion.
Drinks - you can safely drink tea, but only slightly boiled. The sugar is also not vetoed, but coffee should be excluded. Drink stewed fruit, knots, diluted
A separate topic is mineral water. With increased acidity, you should drink alkaline mineral water, of course, therapeutic. However, you can not drink this kind of water with bottles, the gastroenterologist should prescribe the treatment, and the maximum amount is ½ cup before meals.
Some ridiculous heartburn is a signal that you can soon reach a loss of ability to work. Therefore, instead of seizing the cries of "save!" Your body with pills for heartburn, go to the doctor, there is nothing easier than to warn the real danger.