![]() ![]() “Anything you can do to take pressure off the stomach and off the valve is great, so eat slowly, chew your food well, that gets digestion going, sooner,” says Dr Hobson. ![]() Other trigger items include coffee, alcohol, soft drinks and overly processed meals.ĭr Hobson adds that changing the way you eat your food could also help relieve heartburn. Meanwhile, a high fibre intake correlated with a reduced risk of GORD symptoms. The biggest culprits are fatty foods because they sit in your stomach for longer, increasing your chance of an attack. A study published in the BMJ in 2004 confirms that high dietary fat intake was associated with an increased risk of GORD symptoms. What can you do to prevent heartburn?ĭr Hobson stresses that avoiding trigger foods is important in preventing heartburn. Yet, even though the consumption of spicy and acidic foods has been proven to aggravate heartburn and other GORD symptoms, they're generally not the cause.ĭr Michael Mosley investigates claims suggesting that drinking antioxidant-rich drinks, like red wine and green tea, helps to protect against the harmful effects of junk food. The study's results, published in 2017, revealed that hot spicy stews, rice cakes, ramen noodles, fried foods, and topokki induced GORD symptoms like heartburn. Researchers from Korea University Guro Hospital, Seoul attempted to answer this question by studying 126 Korean patients with GORD to determine the food items that caused heartburn and other symptoms. Heartburn is typically blamed on the consumption of spicy foods. Spicy food causes heartburn: fact or myth? Heartburn is actually a symptom of GORD (gastro-oesophageal reflux disease) and is caused by acid that reverts back into the oesophagus via a faulty valve at the top of the stomach. Let me save you that particular taste sensation: very few of us have low stomach acid, and drinking vinegar is not going to help.” “Some even think you can top up your levels by drinking vinegar. “Others claim just the opposite, that too little acid is the problem. “Some sufferers blame it on an excess of stomach acid but that's actually pretty rare,” says medical expert Dr Giles Yeo on episode three of Trust Me, I’m A Doctor – the last show in the current series airing on SBS on Monday 18 March at 8.30pm. It’s that feeling of pain or discomfort, escalating from your chest to your mouth that can vary from mild to severe.Īccording to the Trust Me, I’m A Doctorteam, the sensation of heartburn, which was first written about 2,000 years ago, now affects one in five of us on a regular basis. Nothing kills the buzz of devouring a delicious meal quicker than a bout of heartburn.
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