INDIGESTION – INTRODUCTION
Indigestion is a symptom from which we have all suffered at some time or another.
It appears to be as common as headache but it is a symptom which many people find difficult to describe and, when the term is used, different people often mean different things.
For some it may be anorexia or loss of appetite. It may be nausea or even vomiting. Others regard it as abdominal discomfort. There may be regurgitation of food or acid into the mouth.
Heartburn usually means a pain behind the breastbone.
The indigestion may be associated with flatulence or be used to describe this condition where there is an excess of wind in the stomach which is either brought up or passed onwards and passed as flatus.
Just as there are different conditions which mean indigestion, so there are many causes of this symptom.
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