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Heartburn occurs when digestive juices from the stomach move back up into the esophagus, the tube connecting the throat to the stomach.
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As to what heartburn actually does, it can cause irritation, and even corrosion of the stomach and esophagus. If you have frequent heartburn, or if it's severe, you need to see your doctor.
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∙ 10y agoMild heartburn, occurring infrequently, can be treated symtomatically with over-the-counter remedies such as Tums or Rolaids as needed, and should not affect your everyday life.
If your heartburn is frequent and occurs daily, you should consult your doctor. You may need a different regimen of treatment.
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∙ 9y agoHeart burn can eat ur stomach and esophagus
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∙ 12y agoHeartburn can give you a toomer.
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do certain foods help in avoiding haertburn?
Their are many foods in all sections of the food pyramid that directly effect heartburn. For fruits stay away from lemons, lemonade, berry juices, as they contain high amounts of citric acid. Also, foods high in fat can relax the muscle that prevents your stomach acid from coming up. Dairy products such as milk can make heartburn worse. Even though it is thought that dairy can coat and sooth this is actually what makes it worse. Drinking water compared to sodas, juices, and teas is very important. Depending on how much of these drinks you have a day the change can drastically help prevent heartburn. Foods high in carbohydrates would be noodles, Cheereos, grains, oats. Dryer foods like these can help prevent acid reflux and heartburn.
You have such bad heartburn you eat several tums every day?
You can eat them every day, but try to find a better anti acid reducer. Stay within the recommended limit, and avoid using them for more than two weeks straight. You can also take 1 per day to help with your calcium.
Can eating junk food while you have heartburn kill you?
Heartburn is not terminal it will not kill you, BUT it is a great indicator that something is wrong and it is usually in your esophagus or your stomach. In rare instances other diseases & ailments will give the same symptoms, but usually it is just some irritation from your food or acid in your stomach. Eating junk food may damage your health long term, but on any given day, not likely to be the reason you will be meeting your maker!
Is heartburn a common side effect of Strattera?
My 14 year old son has been on Strattera for two months and complains of heart burn. I am a 52 year old male eating a fairly bland diet. I won't say that Strattera causes frequent heart burn but it appears to contribute significantly to mine. yep, seems to be a side effect. i am 30 years old and am trying this medication. i have never had heart burn in my life. i woke up this moring (3 am) to horrible heartburn pain. i had to run to the store to get rolaids (didn't help). so here i am still awake and in pain. i also have severe diarreha that has been going on for the last 4 days. this is my seventh day. if these problems continue i am not going to keep taking it. I am 16 and have been on Strattera for a week (4 days of 18mg and 3 days of 25mg). I have noticed slight heartburn. I never have had it in my life. It's not bad, but I don't know if it's worse putting up with adverse effects or ADD. My 11 year old son just started taking Strattera 2 weeks ago. He has never had Heartburn before, however now he gets severe pain within 5 minutes of eating anything. The pain is so bad that he rolls on the floor in pain which has lasted up to 3 hours. Nothing over the counter has helped so far. I took him in to the Doctor this morning, and he told us to discontinue Strattera as this is a known side affect. In my case, Straterra has helped me focus enough to bring my eating under control, which has significantly reduced my heartburn. I have been on it for three months with my doctor upping my dosage. I would say that no, it does not cause heartburn. Yes. Am up to 80mg now for 5 days and now have heartburn so bad it woke me up at 3:30 am and is still with me 9 hrs later. Does anyone know if this is a temporary side-effect or is this a chronic one? I'm gonna ditch the Straterra as I also have no motivation, am chronically nauseated and breaking out in a sweat each time I finally muster the motivation to get moving physically. I've been getting heartburn around 6pm the last few days. I think it's a combination of the Strattera, and getting too hungry -- the Strattera actually makes me forget to eat! First time in 52 years! So I take Gaviscon, which is the only thing that works for this kind of heartburn (I used to get it from eating greasy meat late in the day). So try Gaviscon, and eat a healthy snack if you can't eat a meal -- don't get too hungry. And stay away from animal fats, chocolate, caffeine, the usual things they talk about with acid reflux disease. Hi Everybody... I wrote back in October with the question about the heartburn. Thank you all for your feedbacks. My daughter, who is now 14 has been on Stattera for about 7 months now. She's on a high dose. 60 mg in the AM and 40 mg in the PM. She still does get heartburn just about everyday, She takes Nexium with the Stattera and that seems to really help her out. The only problem is that she hates taking pills!! She was diagnosed with ADHD when she was only six yrs old. I'm still not too happy with her schoolwork...and she also has no energy to do what normal teenagers do. It does seems to make her feel tired alot, even after all this time. Does anybody have any more side effects that weren't mentioned? Thank You!! :) All these answers were really helpful for me also. My 12 year old son has been taking this since February and the heartburn has just recently gotton worse. We may have to go back to Ritalin. It also makes him tired. I am fifteen years old and I have been on Strattera and I have been getting really bad heart burn recently. As a matter of fact I have it really bad right now which is what led me here. I have noticed that when I take it with a meal I don't get heart burn but when i take it even fifteen minutes afterward i get heart burn really badly I just started taking Strattera (40 mgs a day) and for the first time in my life I have heartburn! It was so weird, and I was trying to figure out what had changed -- and then I remembered the Straterra was new, so I "googled" straterra and heartburn and this page came up. Now at least I know why I'm having heartburn -- I don't remember reading it as a side effect on the info in the package. I took Ritalin for almost 20 years but then was getting some anxiety so the doctor thought I should get off a stimulant. We'll see how we do with this heartburn. I am 14 and have been taking Strattera for about 3 1/2 weeks and i get horrid heart burn and i cant sleep (how does that help with school?). I plan to talk with my doctor about it soon.
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Can heartburn last for more than 1 day?
Heartburn, also known as acid indigestion, usually only lasts a few hours and is relieved by antacids. Chronic heartburn may require prescription medicines.
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Your girlfriend has been having heartburn at least once a day if not more does that mean she is pregnant?
no, it means she has heartburn. please review symptoms of ulcers, acid reflux disease, etc. heartburn is generally NOT a sign of pregnancy the way nausea is.
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