Please help , does anyone know?!


Question: Please help , does anyone know!?
anything about gastric acid!. 8 weeks ago I starting doing the atkins diet and for 5 weeks I have had heartburn and pain in the sternum (only when bending over)!.I have taken the usual anti -acids and have had some relief , the strange thing is if I drink anything fizzy the pain goes away completely!.So my question is does anyone know does this indicate too much stomach acid or not enough !.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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A burning pain near your chest or oesophagus does indicate too much acid from your stomach!.

However, it might not be the Atkins diet doing it; you could just be prone to an acid reflux, where the acid in your stomach can flop up into your chest a little!. It is painful, but I doubt it's life-threatening!.

I think the reason that the fizzy drinks take the pain away is because the carbonate in the drink (the part that actually makes it fizz, e!.g!. fizzy water is filled with carbon, which reacts with the hydrogen and oxygen in the water to create a carbonate) is slightly alkaline!. I'm not positive, but I'm pretty sure that it is slightly alkaline, especially considering biCARBONate of soda is used by people with acid pains!.

Milk of Magnesia can help acid pains, as well as other methods which you'd have to see a doctor about!.

To be honest, anything that changes your diet so quickly and drastically such as the Atkins diet is going to upset your digestive system; just like someone eating piles of fruit all at once will give them acid and general stomach problems (not least because of the citric acid in fruit, but that's not my point) for a few days!.

Hope I helped :DWww@Answer-Health@Com

the body needs more acid to digest certain foods!. meat takes more time and more effort for the body to digest and metabolize!. what you are experiencing could be a build up of acid leading to heart burn!.

my advice is to stop the diet!. atkins isn't a very healthy way of eating!. carbohydrates are metabolized the fastest in the body!. if you have a balanced diet it is fine to eat them; nessecary!. all the atkins diet does is eat up what is in the body's stores and then attack the body itself for energy; putting the weight back on after the diet is ceased!.

try to eat a balance!. look in the exchange system and find a dietician that can give you a meal plan if you want to eat well!. in the meantime, take some pepcid and do what you have to to stop the pain!.

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