When you eat a meal, food normally moves out of the stomach and into the intestines in a timely fashion. This movement of food from the stomach into the intestines is controlled by a nerve called the vagus nerve. When this nerve malfunctions or is damaged it can lead to slow gastric motility and emptying ...
As I have discussed before, the subject of gastroparesis and how it relates back to diabetes a lot of times. There can be other causes of this delayed stomach emptying disorder, but diabetes is about one of the main ones since it affects the vagus nerve. When a person is struggling with this chronic medical ...
The proper diet for managing your GERD symptoms is very important for sure. In this article, I’d like to explain more about what GERD is briefly, and then get into the diet part of it. GERD or gastroesophageal reflux disease is when acid goes back into the lower portion of your esophagus. That lower part ...
Gastroparesis is a condition in which the walls of the stomach become partially paralyzed. Normally the stomach works to mix and propel food through the digestive tract without our ever having to think about it. The only time we really have to think about the functioning of our stomachs is when something has gone wrong ...
Home remedies are not only a cheaper route to go in curing one’s stomach pain, but home remedies are also convienent in that one doesn’t have to leave their home if they already have that particular home remedy in their cabinet. However, before mentioning several home remedies for curing stomach pain, it is extremely important ...
Although Stacy weighed just 117 pounds, she was a big eater. When she started feeling full after just a few bites of her favorite burger, she stuck the sandwich in a bag and finished it later. However, she eventually ended up in a physician’s office due to repeated bloating, nausea, vomiting, and a loss of ...
Brittle diabetes is known as labile diabetes or unstable diabetes. Persons with this diabetes type have rapid swings in their blood sugars from the extreme highs to the extreme lows. It is very complicated for a doctor to treat, and most people that have brittle diabetes see an endocrinologist. This is a doctor who specializes ...
My mother and her twin sister are identical twins in their mid fifties. They share every possible genetic similarity: the same eye color, the same hair color, the same size shoe. Unfortunately, one trait they also have in common is a stomach motility disorder known as Gastroparesis. This is a relatively rare disease, often linked ...
