What do you feel when you have indegestion? And what can you take to relieve it?

Question

WHAT IS INDEGESTION!?

Answer 1

go to the store and buy calcium tablets, the bob barefoot calcium works great, then eliminate some foods and add them back and see which ones are causing it. For me it was soda pop. I gave it up and the heartburn and indigestion went away. Oh and don't over eat.

Answer 2

You feel sharp pain (like a needle) in the upper abdomen and may regurgitate acid into your mouth or feel a burning pain behind your breast-bone. You may also wake up feeling like you're starving hungry with hunger pangs. The burning/reflux may be worse if you lie down. You should cut out greasy, spicy food, fizzy drinks, smoking, alcohol and tea/coffee. There are OTC liquid remedies like gaviscon, milk of magnesia etc which basically form a neutral layer so that anything refluxing back up your gullet is neutral not acid. There are OTC tablets which are a little slower to work cos you need to break their contents down, so take these straingt after eating as a pre-emptive strike. Finally there are proton pump inhibitors (losec) or H2 antagonists (zantac) which reduce the acid production in the stomach, but you need to get a prescription for these.
If the pain carries on for more than 6 weeks, see a doctor, and call 999 or 911 (whichever your emergency number is) if the pain goes up into your jaw or down your left arm cos it might be cardiac related rather than gastrointestinal.

Answer 3

Any over the counter antacid will work to relieve indigestion. I would suggest something other than Pepto Bismol because it has bismuth subsalicylate as it's active ingredient. This is a form of aspirin and can decrease platelet aggregation and increase blood clotting times, and therefore cause bleeding.

Answer 4

There's a stomach tea with ginger and fennel that works pretty well, or you could go with Pepto Bismol, the standard old remedy (or whatever else is over the counter).

Answer 5

You can make a herbal tea with rezene. First boil two glass of water,stop boiling. then put some amount of rezene into this hot water. It will ease indigestion.

Answer 6

Basically anything like alkaseler (I know I didn't spell that right, worked 13 hrs here today). Depending on how sensitive your stomach is.

Answer 7

drink ginger juice with some warm water w'd help u feel better, n don't take oily food as well.

best wishes.