Normal acidity in the stomach protects the environmentfrom uninvited guests - harmful bacteria. Normally, gastric juice has an acidity ratio of 1.5-2.5. Such indicators play a special role in digesting food and splitting the substances needed by the human body.
If you feel an unpleasant taste in your mouth, your appetiteleaves much to be desired, excruciates burp, visit constipation or diarrhea, then we can talk about the lack of acid in the gastric juice and diagnose "reduced acidity." Stomach symptoms of this pathology is felt especially after eating.
Causes
Reduced acidity of the stomach canprovoked by genetics. If the mother or father, or maybe the grandfather or grandmother suffered from such a disease as chronic gastritis A with secretory insufficiency, you can be afraid of a recurrence of the diagnosis and in the offspring. Therefore, it is worth taking care and doing everything possible to avoid this. Also, an incorrect lifestyle, bad habits and poor nutrition can lead to the doctor's diagnosis of "reduced acidity." Stomach (symptoms in this case by manifestations resemble the work of "lazy stomach") can bother, and there are other signs of pathology. Among them you can call anemia and poor digestibility of vitamins and minerals.
Low acidity (stomach): symptoms
Worms can be the culprits of the fact thatthe patient has a decreased acidity. Stomach (symptoms of the disease in this case are supplemented by itching in the anus) is required to begin to cleanse the parasites. Also observed in patients with low acidity can be a recurring fungal infection, insufficient amount of iron in the body, acne on the body, remnants of food in the feces.
High acidity
Increased acidity of the stomach symptomsmanifestations has in the form of burning pain, a sense of heaviness after eating, constipation, indigestion, heartburn. With increased acidity, the walls of the stomach are usually corroded by microbes, which leads to gastritis and gastric ulcer.
How to deal with low acidity?
To minimize or eliminate altogether the symptoms of pathology can be with the help of diets and medications. So, fresh cabbage juice helps, which should be drunk on a glass daily.
Heartburn, severity neutralized by persistentthe use of decoctions of herbs and roots. A good mixture of chemist's chamomile, wormwood and St. John's wort, which brew 100: 50: 100 grams in a liter of boiling water. Infusion should be kept for 12 hours and drink four times a day for 150 ml.
Lower the acidity of the stomach can wormwood,peppermint, fennel, berries and blueberry leaves, a large plantain, the root of the calamus, leaves of trifol, three-leaved watch, the fruits of dog rose, the root of elecampane high. Especially in the people it is recommended to drink with a reduced acidity "nine-grade wine".
The recipe for wine
Take a bottle of port or cahors, onea tablespoon of fresh finely chopped elephant root. Simmer with a spoon of honey for 10 minutes. The wine is taken 50 g three times a day after meals. This is a radical and tasty remedy. Get medical treatment!
