Acidity: Acidity is also known as acid reflux. It’s a very common disease of all over the world. This disease is individualized by heartburn in the lower chest area. It may creat many complications such as gastric ulcers, cancer,difficulty in swallowing, excessive vomiting etc. We know that gastric glands in the stomach produce HCl acid to digest food and to kill germs. But producing of excessive acid is mainly responsible for acidity. Besides, eating heavy consumption of oily and spicy foods, unhealthy eating habits, side effect of medicine, stress and lack of sleep are also responsible for acidity. If you suffer from the acidity, you should consult with a doctor immediately. To diagnose it, he may ask you to do X-ray of stomach and to do an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy. According to your situation, doctor will prescribe you. If your situation is very worse, he may suggest you to do surgery to minimise the production of acid in stomach, otherwise he will give proper medicine.
