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If not pregnant or breastfeeding, reducing the consumption of foods and supplements containing choline [30] - fish, red meat, white meat, offal, egg yolks, legumes, beans, whey products, milk, and other foods that contain high levels of choline. Choline is an essential nutrient so complete elimination of choline is unadvised.
“Acid reflux occurs when the pressure below the chest in the stomach is higher than the pressure of the valve between the stomach and the food pipe (esophagus),” says Dr. Mark Pimentel, MD, an ...
A lack of hydrochloric acid produced by the stomach is one of the most common age-related causes of a harmed digestive system. [6] Among men and women, 27% experience a varying degree of achlorhydria. US researchers found that over 30% of women and men over the age of 60 have little to no acid secretion in the stomach.
Ciguatera fish poisoning (CFP), also known as ciguatera, is a foodborne illness caused by eating reef fish contaminated with ciguatoxins. [4] [2] Such individual fish are said to be ciguatoxic. Symptoms may include diarrhea, vomiting, numbness, itchiness, sensitivity to hot and cold, dizziness, and weakness.
Rarely, patients may experience respiratory distress requiring ventilatory support. Despite this seemingly severe constellation of symptoms, there have been no documented deaths due to NSP. NSP can present similar to other disorders such as: [4] common food poisoning; seafood allergy; paralytic shellfish poisoning; ciguatera fish poisoning ...
Symptoms usually don't pop up until hours after eating meat because of how slowly the body digests it. That makes it difficult to diagnose, and is one reason the syndrome continues to fly under ...
Alcoholic beverages: Alcohol can interfere with the secretion of gastric acid, and it relaxes the esophageal sphincter, allowing stomach acid to travel up the esophagus, causing indigestion. “It ...
The food-borne parasite Anisakis is a genus of nematodes known to be present in intermediate host salt-water fish, anadromous fish that travel from oceans to rivers to breed, and squid. [ 7 ] [ 18 ] Anisakis are directly infective to humans when infected fish or squid is consumed raw or slightly processed, causing a condition called anisakiasis .