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 ,…).

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.

Symptoms of uric acid: acute uric arthritis
The sharp drop is typically called accesional as acute gouty access is more or less frequent intervals free of welfare.
The night or the first part of the morning is when they appear gout attacks. They occur suddenly but also often occur after certain warning signs.

Premonitory symptoms of a gout attack
Unease
Feeling tired
Upset stomach
Slight fever
Some discomfort in the joint that will suffer the attack

Symptoms of uric acid uric acute attack of arthritis (gout acute)
Onset
Involvement of the metatarsophalangeal joint of big toe
Lancinating pain (violent and sharp)
Redness and swelling of the finger
Fever and chills
Headache
Loss of appetite
The urine is usually small and dark at the beginning and during the attack
The urine becomes more abundant during the resolution phase of the attack
Agitation neuropsychologic
Duration of a few hours
Repeat the attack on the following nights with similar symptoms

Symptoms of uric acid uric attack chronic arthritis (chronic gout)
Tophi are masses of uric acid precipitate from the blood, which can reach up to the size of a walnut
Are formed near the joints (especially of the hand along the ligaments and muscle tendons)
At first they are soft and tender
Subsequently become painless and very hard (come to calcify)
If very large tophus may ulcerate
Tophi open to the outside can easily become infected and ooze
If the disease progresses the joint deforms to acquire highly advanced degrees (fingers twisted and shrunken)
You can get to complete the joint stiffness

Pathological predisposition
The person with this condition are predisposed to other diseases such as:

Psoriasis, eczema
Live and intense itching of the skin
Caries, alveolar pyorrhea
Conjunctivitis
Chronic colds
Neuralgia
Headaches
Insomnia, etc.