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Answer» 1. Indigestion: - Overeating, inadequate enzyme secretion, spicy food, anxiety can cause discomfort and various symptoms. It is called indigestion.
- Improperly digested food or food poisoning also can cause indigestion.
- It leads to loss of appetite, acidity (acid reflux), heart burn, regurgitation, dyspepsia (upper abdominal pain), stomach pain.
- Avoiding eating large meal, lying down after meal, spicy, oily, junk food, smoking, alcohol are the.preventive measures for indigestion.
2. Constipation: - When frequency of defaecation is reduced to less than once per week the condition is called constipation.
- Difficulty in defaecation may result in abdominal pain distortion, rarely perforation.
- The causes are, affected colonic mobility due to neurological dysfunction like spinal cord injury, low fibre diet, inadequate fluid intake and inactivity.
- Roughage, sufficient fluids in diet, exercise can help improve the conditions.
3. Vomiting: - In this condition, the stomach contents are thrown out of the mouth due to reverse peristaltic movements of gastric wall.
- It is controlled by non-vital vomiting center of medulla.
- It is typically associated with nauseatic feeling.
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