What is dyspepsia?
Dyspepsia, ancient Greek for “bad digestion”, can be quite severe, even debilitating in some cases. Dyspepsia was defined as “pain or discomfort centered in the upper abdomen, but sufferers can have more than one symptom.
It is usually considered those whose predominant symptom is heartburn or heartburn (ie d., Reflux or acid regurgitation, often described as “a burning sensation in the upper chest) are suffering from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). However, symptoms of “reflux” may also occur at the same time as other symptoms caused by a peptic ulcer, impaired motility (contractions of the esophagus, stomach or intestine that move food in the digestive tract) or a “non-ulcer dyspepsia.
This situation has prompted the Canadian Advisory Group on dyspepsia (candy) to publish recently a new more comprehensive definition that describes dyspepsia as “a set of symptoms that causes epigastric pain or discomfort from the upper gastrointestinal tract and may include n ‘ importance of the following symptoms: heartburn, acid regurgitation, burping / belching, increased abdominal bloating, nausea, feeling of abnormal or slow digestion, or early satiety.
