Every person has faced digestive problems at least once in their life. Heaviness in the stomach is one of the most common troubles. This phenomenon may indicate both a single violation in the work of the stomach, and the presence of a person in any disease. Among the most common causes of heaviness in the stomach are:
- a person has bad habits such as smoking or alcohol abuse;
- malnutrition accompanied by frequent snacking;
- overeating;
- Wrong food combination;
- abuse of fried, fatty or overly spicy foods;
- frequent consumption of carbonated drinks;
- excessive anxiety, stress;
- chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
Expectant mothers often complain about the feeling of heaviness in the stomach after eating. Despite the fact that this symptom is not normal, for most pregnant women it does not pose any threat. Most likely, the expectant mother should simplyslightly adjust the mode and diet of your diet.
Often, heaviness in the stomach becomes one of the symptoms of the progression of gastritis. Then it is accompanied by nausea, stool disorder, heartburn. It is not difficult to make a preliminary diagnosis of the disease on your own, but it is best in such situations to simply take a medicine for heaviness 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 heaviness in the stomach is the time of its occurrence and duration:
- Heaviness in the stomach, which appears immediately after eating, indicates that he can not cope with the food that a person is used to eating. This problem is solved by limiting the consumption of fatty and spicy foods.
- The manifestation of a symptom in the morning indicates that the stomach has not yet had time to digest what was eaten the day before. In order to prevent this from happening again, you need to stop eating shortly before going to bed.
- If the heaviness in the stomach arose during for, most likely, the person ate something of poor quality.
- In the case when heaviness in the stomach appears several times a week, accompanied by belching and vomiting, you should consult a specialist, as these symptoms indicate a serious violation in the digestive tract.
- Severity and constant discomfort lasting for several days indicate that a person has a chronic illness.
How to remove heaviness in the stomach?
In order to remove the heaviness that has already appeared, you can apply a warm heating pad to your stomach or do a massage. If even then the severity does not recede, take a tablet of the Festal, Mezim enzyme preparation or another similar remedy. In a situation where the symptom occurs regularly, you need to:
- plan your meal plan (4-5 times a day);
- periodically arrange fasting days;
- restrict consumption of fried foods and seasonings without flavor enhancers;
- get rid of excess weight;
- start exercising (at least exercising in the morning).
