What Causes Acidity? Understanding its Symptoms and Causes

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What Causes Acidity

• Gastritis/acidity is a group of diseases or
  symptoms where there is excess secretion of acid
  by the gastric glands of the stomach.

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What does Ayurveda suggest?

• In Ayurveda, Agni refers to fire like activity in
  alimentary canal responsible for digestion of
  food which is influenced by the status of doshas.
  When samana-vata associates with kapha in turn
  produces weak digestive power (agni-mandya).
  Consuming food against the code of dietetics i.
  E. Ahara-vidhi vidhana and ahara-vidhi-visheshayat
  ana (method of taking food) lead to a number of
  diseases related with food. Eating food before
  the previous food is digested, untimely food,
  eating too much of spicy or oily food, eating
  when not hungry, drinking too much water during
  food and at a time unless required, very hot high
  fatty-fried food, stale food, heavy diet, excess
  consumption of horse gram, vitiate all the three
  body humors (tridosha) also contribute to the
  symptoms of gastritis.
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What Causes Acidity? Understanding its Symptoms
and Causes

• Acidity - gastritis understanding the symptoms
  and causesIf you have upper abdominal
  discomfort or pain, stomach fullness, heartburn,
  nausea, vomiting, indigestion, belching, water
  brash or irregular bowel movement, then you must
  be suffering from acidity or gastritis. It is a
  problem which becomes worse when an individual
  has poor eating habits and improper
  lifestyle.Gastritis swelling of stomach
  liningVarious factors like spicy food,
  medicines, tobacco, alcohol etc. Can cause
  increase in gastric acid production and disturb,
  weaken or damage the normal stomach lining.
  Gastritis occurs when there is an imbalance
  between the acid production and damage to the
  stomach lining, resulting in swelling of the
  stomach lining.Gastritis a very common disorder
  of all age groupsGastritis is of two types -
  acute gastritis (which occur suddenly) and
  chronic gastritis (develops over a period of
  time). In India gastritis is a very common
  disorder which occurs at any age but is more
  widespread in the adolescent age group (12-17
  years). Adolescence is a change from childhood to
  adulthood, the period in which a lot of physical
  and psychological changes occur increasing the
  risk of gastritis

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How to diagnose gastritis?

• To diagnose gastritis, performs a thorough
  physical evaluation, and may recommend a blood
  test for h. Pylori screening, stool test for
  blood in the stool. Abdominal x-rays or barium
  studies (upper or lower) may demonstrate the
  presence of thickened stomach lining and folds
  that are signs of inflammation in the
  stomach.Sometimes, an endoscope, a thin tube
  containing a tiny camera, is inserted through the
  mouth and down into the stomach to look at the
  stomach lining (endoscopy). The doctor will check
  for inflammation and may perform a biopsy, in
  which a tiny sample of tissue is removed and sent
  for analysis of gastric lining.
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