How many of us have been woken up in the middle of the night with a sharp pain in the chest cavity accompanied by a feeling of nausea? Honestly, it's a scary feeling because most often it's assumed that it's a heart attack.
A short while later, or after an emergency visit to the doctor, and probably even an ECG, one realises that it is nothing but an attack of gastritis probably triggered by a heavy meal, stress, excessive alcohol or even too much smoking. In short, a lifestyle disease. More often than not a simple antacid does the trick of relieving symptoms, but if the attacks continue then one has to tackle the problem seriously before it turns into an ulcer. |
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