What should I do if I suddenly have excessive stomach acid and saliva?

In daily life, many people are prone to symptoms of stomach acid. Gastric acid is generally caused by gastrointestinal diseases or indigestion. The presence of stomach acid will easily cause reflux or excessive drooling. This is a symptom caused by abnormal gastric acid secretion in the stomach. It can be improved by lifestyle habits. Try not to eat spicy food.

What should I do if I suddenly have excessive stomach acid and saliva?

If this happens once in a while, don't worry too much, it's caused by indigestion. Start with diet. If the woman is of childbearing age, the possibility of pregnancy should also be ruled out. If you often skip breakfast, you should develop good habits and eat breakfast on time. Eat easily digestible food regularly in the morning. You can eat more pasta recently to neutralize excessive stomach acid secretion. You can drink some clove tea appropriately.

If symptoms persist for a long time, it is considered to be gastritis, which requires timely examination, symptomatic treatment, and standardized medication. In daily life, you should maintain a light diet, avoid spicy and irritating foods, be in a good mood and not be nervous or anxious, and you will recover slowly.

Western medicine products used to treat gastritis will indiscriminately kill broad-spectrum bacteria, killing both beneficial and harmful bacteria. Ultimately, the natural bacterial environment of the human body will be maliciously destroyed by humans. Autoimmunity is the best doctor in the world.

Therefore, the use of medication for gastritis should be controlled well. After gastritis is cured, you should also pay attention to nourishing the stomach. Drinking simple porridge, eating noodles, or drinking stomach-nourishing tea often can warm the stomach, protect the stomach, and make the stomach healthier.

Function of gastric acid

Pepsinogen in the stomach must first be activated by gastric acid and converted into pepsin and parapepsin. The most appropriate activation pH value for pepsinogen is about 2.0. Only under such a high acid concentration can pepsin be activated and then digest and decompose protein. In addition, in the intestinal pancreatic juice protein digestion system, the carboxypeptidase proenzyme needs to be converted into carboxypeptidase that can digest protein, and pepsin is also required to activate it. Therefore, if gastric acid secretion is insufficient, pepsin cannot be produced. In addition to affecting the digestion of protein in the stomach, it will also affect the further digestion of protein in the intestine and the absorption and utilization of amino acids.

The amount of gastric acid cannot be too much or too little and must be controlled within a certain range, otherwise hyperacidity and hypoacidity will occur.

When there is too much stomach acid, pathological symptoms such as "coughing up acid", "heartburn", and "stomach discomfort" will appear. In severe cases, it will reduce appetite and cause indigestion, and then cause various forms of stomach diseases such as gastric ulcers. Excessive gastric acid is common in duodenal ulcer, gastrinoma, chronic gastritis, acute gastritis, reflux esophagitis, cholecystitis, etc.

Too little stomach acid means lack of hydrochloric acid in the stomach, that is, insufficient secretion of gastric juice, which is unable to undertake the work of digestion and preservation and fermentation, affecting the digestion and absorption function, making it easy to suffer from gastrointestinal diseases, and also leading to obstacles in the digestion and absorption of nutrients. Many minerals and vitamins require adequate stomach acid for optimal absorption, such as iron, zinc, and B vitamins. Patients with gastric acid deficiency or insufficient gastric acid may have multiple nutritional deficiencies, which will lead to many health problems and seriously affect people's physical health. When there is too little or no gastric acid, bacteria can easily multiply in the stomach. This is more common in chronic atrophic gastritis and can manifest as upper abdominal discomfort, poor appetite, and indigestion. The main symptoms of hypochlorhydria are stomach indigestion, belching and burning pain in the chest. Low concentration of gastric acid in gastric juice may be caused by pernicious anemia, tropical steatorrhea, or chronic gastritis.

Gastric acid is a double-edged sword. When it is secreted too little or lacking, it can cause indigestion phenomena such as abdominal distension and diarrhea. Excessive secretion can invade the gastric and duodenal mucosa, while increasing the ulcer-causing effectiveness of pepsin, directly leading to ulcer formation and complications such as ulcer perforation and bleeding. Moreover, high stomach acid can affect platelet aggregation and coagulation factor activity, making the blood difficult to coagulate, leading to bleeding and re-bleeding.

Gastric acid measurement

Using pentagastrin and other substances as stimuli, basal gastric juice is collected at regular intervals to measure the amount of gastric acid secretion per unit time. Includes basal gastric acid secretion, maximum gastric acid secretion and peak gastric acid secretion.

1. Basal acid output (BAO)

The total amount of gastric juice secreted within 1 hour without food or drug stimulation was collected. Reference value: 3.9±1.98mmol/L (rarely exceeds 5mmol/L)

2. Maximum gastric acid output (MAO)

After injecting pentagastrin stimulant, gastric juice was collected every 15 minutes, and the sum of 4 measurements within 1 hour was obtained. Reference value: 3-23mmol/L (male), slightly lower for female.

3. Peak acid output (PAO)