Top articles about Digestive Health

What Causes Sudden Stomach Pain At Night?

Nobody likes waking up to stomach pain in the night. But it is a common occurrence that usually indicates a harmless digestive issue that is easily corrected with minor lifestyle changes or OTC medication. For some however, this sudden stomach pain at night might indicate a more serious condition. Read on for some of the
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Prevent Stomach Pain From Ruining Your Sleep

The reasons behind sudden stomach pain at night are as wide as the color spectrum. They can range from seemingly normal everyday issues like gas, constipation, and bloating, to more serious concerns like kidney stones, a hiatal hernia (passing of a stomach portion into the chest cavity), or stomach ulcers. In most cases, however, these
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Nighttime Stomach Pain-The Gastric Edition

We’ve previously listed some common and general causes of sudden nighttime stomach pain. However, a frequent symptom of most digestive issues is the sudden nighttime stomach pain; which may also be the first sign at times. Here we look at some gastric causes of nighttime stomach pain: 1-Acid Reflux: Identified by a burning sensation, acid
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How To Treat and Prevent Bezoars?

Bezoars are lumps of food and/or non-food particles that remain undigested or are partially digested by the stomach. While not usually a serious medical concern, the fact that they present little to no symptoms may result in continued growth of the lump, which may then block the gastrointestinal pathways. However, most bezoars are easy to
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Bezoars: A Digestive predicament?

Believed until as close as the late 1900s to possess healing properties as antidotes to various poisons, advancements in medicinal biology have since proven otherwise. Bezoars are, in fact, a buildup of partially digested or undigested material-both food and non-food particles-in the gastrointestinal tract that gradually form larger, tightly packed masses that can cause a
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