Diet revision should be primary therapy. The solution is to adjust the incoming food supply until the problem is resolved. The gastrointestinal tract is a sensing, reactive device which monitors the material flowing through it. Symptoms arising from this system provide information about its dysfunction. Seven basic symptoms alert the patient to gastrointestinal tract displeasure with food choices - nausea, heartburn, vomiting, bloating, pain, constipation and diarrhea.
Swallowed food descends through the chest in the esophagus into the stomach.
Pain in the central chest may come from an inflamed esophagus. This pain is often burning in quality but may also be a severe ache, suggesting a heart attack. A hiatus hernia may show up on the x-ray, but treatment with diet revision will often help or resolve the problem. Many patients who benefited from proper diet revision have reported that their hearburn and indigestion only returns when they aet the worng foods - this food intolerance may last for many years. Some patients induce vomiting to avoid discomforts after eating.