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THE SYMTOMS OF FOOD INTOLERANCE: NAUSEA AND INDIGESTION
Everyone gets indigestion at some time or another. By far the most common cause is unwise eating habits – eating too much, eating too quickly, trying to eat when you are anxious, excited, angry, upset or tense, eating standing up, rushing about after a meal, eating late at night, or having too much rich food. Smoking makes matters worse, as does too much alcohol, very acid food, spicy food, or too much oil and fat. The fashion for drinking large quantities of fruit juice is likely to produce indigestion in some people: when fruit is eaten, the stomach has time to adjust to the influx of acid – drinking a large glass of orange juice all at once is a different matter. For some people, there are specific foods that cause indigestion, and these should simply be avoided. In some cases, nausea and indigestion are purely psychosomatic.
More seriously, a peptic ulcer (stomach ulcer or duodenal ulcer) can be at the root of nausea and indigestion. Other possibilities include gallstones, a hiatus hernia, and, very rarely, cancer of the stomach. If your indigestion becomes more severe, or very frequent, if you lose your appetite, lose weight, or begin vomiting regularly, then there may be something seriously amiss, and these possibilities should be investigated by your doctor.
Food intolerance can cause nausea and indigestion although this is rarely the sole symptom. It seems that if the food affects the stomach in this way, then it affects the digestive system as a whole. So there is usually diarrhoea or other bowel symptoms as well. In babies, the equivalent of indigestion appears to be colic.
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