Heartburn in pregnant women may be physiological phenomenon, dietary factors, chronic gastritis, mainly from dietary adjustments, and with massage and other ways to relieve.
1. Physiological phenomenon: progesterone relaxes the sphincter of the gastric cardia, and the acidic contents of the stomach reflux into the lower esophagus to produce heartburn, which may cause heartburn, generally relieved in mid-pregnancy, usually eat small meals, avoid overfilling, and don’t lie down immediately after eating.
2. Dietary factors: may be too much food or eat too much spicy and stimulating food caused by excessive secretion of gastric acid, thus causing heartburn, pay attention to light diet, you can eat some alkaline food, such as soda crackers, which can help to neutralize the gastric acid, thus relieving the symptoms of heartburn, but also can be placed on the palm of the stomach to gently massage, can relieve the symptoms of heartburn.
3. Chronic gastritis: because pregnancy is not recommended to use drugs, mainly from the dietary management, it is recommended to eat light and easy to digest food, less spicy and stimulating food, so as not to aggravate the discomfort.
If the pregnant woman’s heartburn is more serious, and the symptoms continue to be unrelieved, you need to go to the hospital to find out the cause.