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It is advisable to use olive oil as a source of fat and regular intake of yogurt, acidophilic milk, and kefir. Aloe vera and bee products and herbs can also be helpful.
It is estimated that just over a third of people suffer from such digestive problems. About 50 percent of dyspeptic patients have damage to the upper gastrointestinal system, most commonly erosive gastritis or peptic ulcer of the stomach and/or duodenum, while the remaining 50 percent of patients do not have such changes, the nutritionist adds.
- Dyspepsia indicates post-meal discomfort or pain localized in the upper abdomen. Most often it is a functional disorder of the upper part of the digestive system.
This condition is manifested by pain, burning, feeling of discomfort and nausea in the stomach, feeling of pressure and flatulence, feeling of fullness, satiety, even after small amounts of food, loss of appetite, belching and increased discharge of gases, return of gastric contents to the esophagus (so-called reflux). or nausea that can be accompanied by vomiting.
There are several risk factors for dyspepsia, such as smoking, excessive and prolonged consumption of alcoholic beverages, excessive coffee intake (more than six cups a day), inadequate diet (high in fat, spicy foods, starvation and malnutrition), obesity, exposure to stress, the use of certain drugs (non-steroidal antirheumatics, antibiotics, estrogens), but also the presence of some other diseases (diabetes, thyroid and kidney diseases, impaired cardiac function, pulmonary tuberculosis, malignancies), and Helicobacter pylori infection.
