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Question: There is always chest pain and headache due to change in eating timings or acidity. So how can I avoid this or reduce it.
Brief Answer:
Avoid / correct the cause, additional medicines if required.
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query, albeit small and specific.
To recapitulate:
Male / 30 - on pain relief tablets like paracetamol - H/O chest pain and headache due to change in ''eating timing'' or 'acidity' - Wants to know how to avoid or reduce.
The most probable reasons for this can be:
- The disturbance of the ''body clock''.
- Acidity itself can cause the chest pain due to acid coming up in the esophagus called GERD and causes pain in the chest.
- Headache in such cases can be non-specific, meaning the exact cause can not always be found.
How to avoid or reduce:
-The first principle would be to have the perfect timing of the food habits. Not to change the timings at any cost. The principle of any disease is avoid the cause.
- Stress and anxiety have a big role in causation of such problems; if you have, it has to be kept under control.
- Take a course of PPI like Pantoprazole or Ranitidine to keep the acidity under control.
- It is always better to get some blood tests like sugar and routine just to know that they are normal.
- Upper GI Endoscopy at least once to know the exact status of the esophagus, stomach and the duodenum, to find whether there are any changes than the normal; if present a proper treatment can be instituted.
- I hope you do not have any other problems; if present please give me feedback so that I can help to correlate.
Also send me the history of any related or unrelated topic which may be attach to your present problems; these can be like a problem in family, at work, discords and all.
I hope this answers your query and helps you to get a control of your problems.
Please feel free to ask for more if you need to or if you feel that there is a gap of communication
Avoid / correct the cause, additional medicines if required.
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query, albeit small and specific.
To recapitulate:
Male / 30 - on pain relief tablets like paracetamol - H/O chest pain and headache due to change in ''eating timing'' or 'acidity' - Wants to know how to avoid or reduce.
The most probable reasons for this can be:
- The disturbance of the ''body clock''.
- Acidity itself can cause the chest pain due to acid coming up in the esophagus called GERD and causes pain in the chest.
- Headache in such cases can be non-specific, meaning the exact cause can not always be found.
How to avoid or reduce:
-The first principle would be to have the perfect timing of the food habits. Not to change the timings at any cost. The principle of any disease is avoid the cause.
- Stress and anxiety have a big role in causation of such problems; if you have, it has to be kept under control.
- Take a course of PPI like Pantoprazole or Ranitidine to keep the acidity under control.
- It is always better to get some blood tests like sugar and routine just to know that they are normal.
- Upper GI Endoscopy at least once to know the exact status of the esophagus, stomach and the duodenum, to find whether there are any changes than the normal; if present a proper treatment can be instituted.
- I hope you do not have any other problems; if present please give me feedback so that I can help to correlate.
Also send me the history of any related or unrelated topic which may be attach to your present problems; these can be like a problem in family, at work, discords and all.
I hope this answers your query and helps you to get a control of your problems.
Please feel free to ask for more if you need to or if you feel that there is a gap of communication
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