
January 11, 2017, 16:19
Heaviness in the abdomen, heartburn, bloating, discomfort and pain in the stomach area — probably everyone has come across these and other unpleasant sensations. Why do they arise, how dangerous and how to deal with them?

In medicine, disorders of the gastrointestinal tract of various origins are called functional dyspepsia. This collective term refers to a wide variety of symptoms of indigestion: belching, yellow coating on the tongue, heartburn, rumbling, nausea, heaviness in the stomach after eating, flatulence and bloating, diarrhea, constipation …
Why do digestive disorders occur?

The main cause of most functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract is a modern lifestyle. Namely, lack of physical activity, irregular and unbalanced diet. Do you often refuse breakfast, replace a hot lunch with fast food or semi-finished products, during the day you muffle the feeling of hunger with chocolate, cookies or fatty snacks, and when you come home you catch up with a hearty high-calorie dinner? A few months in a similar mode, and problems with the gastrointestinal tract are provided to you. Foods rich in fats, excessive consumption of sugar, flour products, sweets, dry food are detrimental to our digestive system. If measures are not taken in time, then mild discomfort can turn into a more complex disease, which is much more difficult to treat. By the way, bad habits, such as smoking, can also contribute to the development of dyspepsia. So it is better to replace smoking breaks on the balcony with a walk in the park near the office.
Why is dyspepsia dangerous?

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Improper nutrition over time can lead to impaired motor function of the digestive tract. At the same time, toxic substances accumulate in the intestines. They irritate the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, affect the intestinal microflora and cause dysbacteriosis. The latter, in turn, exacerbates the manifestations of dyspepsia, further violating the quality of life.
How to cope with dyspepsia and dysbacteriosis?

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To break the vicious circle will help the correct attitude towards your health — an active lifestyle, adherence to diet, rejection of harmful foods and dangerous habits. As well as taking probiotics — drugs that help normalize the intestinal microflora and eliminate the symptoms of dyspepsia and dysbacteriosis. Care should be taken when choosing a probiotic, because not all drugs are equally effective. It has been proven that replacement therapy with probiotics that contain live cultures of typical intestinal microorganisms “from the outside” is not possible, since they usually do not correspond to the unique innate composition of the human microflora. “Foreign” bacteria do not take root and, consequently, lose their effectiveness. Preference should be given to special probiotic preparations, which are designed to support the development of their own normal intestinal microflora, and not replace it with other strains of bacteria unusual for it.
Such a probiotic preparation is Laktovit Forte. It contains spores of lactobacillus bacillus coagulans (B. coagulans), folic acid (vitamin B9) and cyanocobalamin (vitamin B12).
Unlike other probiotics, Laktovit Forte contains bacterial spores that remain viable when ingested. There they are activated and in the duodenum they turn into beneficial microorganisms that produce a special lactic acid. It creates the optimal acidity of the environment for the development of its own beneficial intestinal microflora. In addition, lactobacilli B. coagulans help reduce intestinal bloating and reduce abdominal pain in functional bloating. Thanks to a combination of special bacteria, folic acid and vitamin B12, Laktovit Forte restores the intestinal mucosa, normalizes the processes of digestion and absorption of nutrients. Vitamins B9 and B12 accelerate the action of B. coagulans, have an immunomodulatory effect, and increase the body’s resistance to infection. The use of the drug Laktovit Forte reliably eliminates the symptoms of dysbacteriosis and functional dyspepsia.
It is important that B. coagulans bacteria do not colonize the intestinal mucosa and are gradually eliminated from the gastrointestinal tract, providing a long-term therapeutic effect after the end of their intake.
The drug can be used by pregnant women and children from the first months of life.
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