The acid backward flow is an ignition of the oesophagus caused by the increase of the acid contents of the stomach. The acid backward flow is generally identified by its principal symptom: the “heartburn”.
We at least once tried out all this unpleasant feeling of heartburn, and many people souffrents still today of acid backward flow. A bad digestion increases the risks of acid backward flow considerably.
The acid backward flow occurs when the gastric juices containing of the acid go up stomach with the oesophagus. At certain people, this phenomenon occurs regularly. One will speak then about pathological backward flow gastro-œsophagien, or RGO.
The backward flow gastro-oesophagien can be very frequent in the infant, in whom, it is responsible for régurgitations. But these disorders generally disappear at the age from walk. In the adult on the other hand, whereas one has effective cures, this disease remains still ignored and badly neat.
The food in the stomach is partially digested by the gastric acid and enzymes. Normally, the muscles of the stomach push the acid contents partially digested in the small intestine so that digestion continues.
In the cases of backward flow, the acid contents of the stomach circulate in opposite direction to find itself in the oesophagus, which causes ignition and lesions. The acid backward flow can have many unpleasant consequences in the life of every day.
The factors which contribute to the acid backward flow are the fatty food, the cigarette, the chocolate, cafeine, alcohol, obesity, the pregnancy or obesity.
Symptoms of backward flow acid include/understand thus heartburn (feeling of burn which leaves the stomach or the bottom of the chest and goes up towards the neck), régurgitation (food or liquid which goes up in the mouth), pains with the chest, the difficulty of swallowing (dysphagie), the raucous voice, dental diseases and asthma.
Various drugs are usually used to treat the acid backward flow. The inhibitors of the pump with protons and the antagonists of the receivers H2 are employed to reduce the production of acid in the stomach. As for the agents procinetic, they increase the pressure of the lower sphincter œsophagien and improve gastric draining.
