Have you ever experienced bloating or fullness as a result of eating too much and too quickly? A burning sensation along your esophagus after meals? Do you also encounter embarrassing episodes of intestinal gas accompanied by cramping? All these commonly voiced phisical complaints are indications of an overloaded digestive system which should not be taken lightly.
Stomach disorders are often associated with an overindulgence in rich foods and unhealthy lifestyles. Some people tend to rush their meals or overeat most of the time.If you fill your belly with too much food too fast, you willforce up more stomach acids into the esophagus. When this happens, you will expereince a condition called heartburn. At the same time, you might be feeling very bloated because of the amount of air that you have swallowed by eating too quickly. this will in turn cause the build up of excessive gas within the gastrointestinal tract, simply known as flatulence.
Quite often, most individuals do not watch their diet unless their health has been affected. Bear in mind that the type of food you eat can either heal or harm your body. Too much spicy, fatty or deep-fried food in the long run would overwhelm your digestive system and result in indigestion and gastritis.
This is where pharmacists shouldn’t play doctor and make diagnoses. “overloaded digestive system”?
Depending on the details of the history of the individual and other clues, one could be dealing with disorders ranging from reflux esophagitis, peptic ulcer, ca. stomach, gallstones etc .
Don’t assume its “overindulgence in rich foods and unhealthy lifestyles”.
Palmdoc: I appreciate your advice but if you have followed my blog, you will notice that more often than not I discourage self medication and seeking medical help is essential.
Like all professions, there are bound to be conflicts like in your example pharmacists playing doctor. But if you stop and think about it, the role of a pharmacist (though maybe not in Malaysia) is as essential as that of a medical professional - we are there to stop careless doctors from making mistakes with drug interactions - a common cause of fatality in hospitals. So should doctors play pharmacists?