What Causes Acid Reflux and Indigestion?
Acid reflex and indigestion are the result of acids found in your stomach backing up into your esophagus. These juices include hydrochloric acid, the corrosive substance used in industry to clean metal. What do you do? What brought on the intense pain that Tums won’t touch? Overdoing it and filling the belly too full is often the answer. Lying flat while eating is another. If trying to digest upright, gravity would have worked to help and the acids may have stayed down in the stomach where they belong. Finally this person washed the whole mess down with milk, which, contrary to popular opinion, is no friend of those with indigestion. The fats, proteins, and calcium in milk stimulate the stomach to secrete acid despite the fact that the milk may feel good going down. Also, the person indulged in the worst dessert there is for the heartburn sufferer: chocolate. It has the double whammy of being nearly all fat and containing another nemesis of the indigestion-plagued: caffeine. Finally, t
