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Heartburn is one of the forms of gastritis.
Heartburn Gastritis is defined as inflammation of the lining of the stomach including heartburn and gastro-enteritis, the distinction is not always obvious. These digestive disorders most frequently.

Heartburn can occur for example after a meal, this condition is characterized by a burning sensation in the sternum, is the result of rising acidity (reflux) into the esophagus. If this occurs after a meal, a therapy with anti-acids available in pharmacies only.

However if the pain lasts (from about 3 to 4 weeks) or is not intense and casual, a medical consultation is needed to determine the cause. The doctor may prescribe prescription medicine against heartburn.

Causes of heartburn
The causes of gastritis (in general) or more precisely, heartburn can be numerous:

• Bacterium Helicobacter pylori, the latter leads to gastric inflammation: the revolutionary discovery for medicine was awarded in 2005 by the Nobel Prize in medicine.

• Stress and / or other psychological problems: because the digestive system has more nerve cells than the brain! Thus a link between the nervous and digestive system is a reality that the patient and the physician should more often take into account. In caregiver stress can therefore in some cases significantly reduce heartburn.

• When medication stomach irritants such as certain anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDs = (acetylsalicylic acid, ibuprofen, diclofenac, mefenamic acid ,…) or anti-inflammatory drugs (cortisone ,…).

Definition of uric acid or gout
Is not only altered metabolism of fatty content in the nucleoproteins nuclein but destination abnormal uric acid represents the final product of this metabolism.

Symptoms of uric acid
From a clinical point of view is manifested as acute uric arthritis (acute gout), which stands more or less common, acute gouty access, consisting of painful arthritis affecting one or more joints, and uric chronic arthritis (chronic gout) whose main characteristic is the repository of so-called tophi (uric acid concretions precipitate in the bloodstream) in articular and periarticular tissues and deformation of joints affected more or less. Read the rest of this entry »