Heaviness in the stomach: symptoms, treatment

With problems of digestion at least once in a life faced each person. Heaviness in the stomach is one of the most common troubles. This phenomenon can indicate both a single violation in the work of the stomach, and the presence of a person in a disease. Among the most common causes of the appearance of severity in the stomach can be identified:

• The presence of a person's bad habits, such as smoking or alcohol abuse;
• Malnutrition, accompanied by frequent snacks;
• binge eating;
• Improperly selected combination of food;
• Abuse of fried, fatty or too spicy food;
• Frequent use of carbonated beverages;
• Excessive anxiety, stress;
• Chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Often, the feeling of heaviness in the stomach after eating complain to future mothers. Despite the fact that this symptom is not normal, for most pregnant women it does not pose any threat. Most likely, the future mother should just slightly adjust the diet and diet of her diet.

Often, the severity in the stomach becomes one of the symptoms of progression of gastritis. Then it is accompanied by nausea, a disorder of the stool, and heartburn. It is not difficult to independently conduct a preliminary diagnosis of the disease, but it is best in such situations to simply take a medicine for severity in the stomach to suppress the symptom and consult a specialist. The main criteria by which you can try to determine the cause of the occurrence of gravity in the stomach is the time of its appearance and duration:

1. The severity in the stomach, which appears immediately after eating, indicates that he can not cope with the food that a person is accustomed to using. This problem is solved by limiting the use of fatty and spicy dishes.
2. The manifestation of the symptom in the morning suggests that the stomach has not yet had time to digest the eaten the day before. In order that this does not happen again, you need to stop eating food shortly before going to bed.
3. If the heaviness in the stomach arose during for, most likely, a person used in food something of poor quality.
4. In the case when the heaviness in the stomach appears several times a week, accompanied by eructations and vomiting, you should consult a specialist, since these symptoms indicate a serious abnormality in the digestive tract.
5. The severity and constant discomfort, lasting for several days, indicate the presence of a chronic disease in a person.

How to remove the heaviness in the stomach?

In order to remove the already appeared heaviness, you can attach a warm water bottle to your stomach or massage. If even then the heaviness does not recede, take a tablet of the enzyme preparation "Festal", "Mezim" or other similar remedy. In a situation where the symptom is manifested regularly, you need:

• To plan a diet (4-5 times a day);
• Periodically arrange unloading days;
• Limited use of fried foods, and use seasonings without flavor enhancers ;
• Get rid of excess weight;
• Start sports (at least engage in exercise in the morning).