Digestive System

Women's Food Intolerances

Many women attribute occasional bloating, nausea, fatigue, cravings or headaches to their monthly period or stress. Taking a look at the bigger picture often can show the root of these problems can actually be one or more food intolerances. If the symptoms mentioned above along with potential other symptoms such as sneezing, coughing, poor complexion or skin, trouble losing or gaining weight or digestion issues are common in your daily life it might be useful to take a look at your diet and consider a food intolerance.

Food Poisoning

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, food poisoning occurs about 76 million times per year and results in about 5,000 deaths.

Food poisoning is quite common and typically displays similar symptoms to the flu. In fact, often times the two are indistinguishable. Symptoms of food poisoning include nausea, vomiting, stomach cramps, diarrhea and even fever and chills can occur. These symptoms typically present themselves within 48 hours of consuming the contaminated food or beverage.

Dealing with Lactose Intolerance in Infants

How do you know your baby is lactose intolerant? Lactose intolerance, like peanut allergies, is a relatively new health phenomenon. The topic first came to public light with the airing of Lactaid commercials a number of years ago. But, it is easier for adults to describe symptoms (these will be covered in a separate article) to their doctors and have their doctor or nutritionist diagnose for them. But, how can you tell if your baby may be lactose intolerant?

Is Salt Bad or Not?

The media changes its stories from one season to the other. A few years ago, tea was not good to drink due to its caffeine content. Now it is good due to its high antioxidant content. Ginko biloba was the potential cure for memory loss but now we find it also has side effects like increased bleeding and heart palpitations. What about salt?

Diverticulitis, Is That Why I Have Belly Pain?

When people have pain or discomfort in their digestive tracts there are several serious diseases that these symptoms may be giving information about. It is always important to make sure if you are having recurring digestive problems, or problems that occur 2 to 3 times per week to see your physician to rule out a serious problem. ( If you are seeing a naturopathic physician or alternative physician you can even successfully reduce or resolve minor digestive complains as well.)

Top Ten List for Recovery From Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

These are my Top Ten tools for my ongoing recovery from Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Vitamin D Boosts Treatment of Chronic Hepatitis C

Hepatitis C is an inflammation of the liver caused by the spherical, enveloped single-strand RNA virus. The World Health Organization estimated 170 million individuals worldwide are infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV). In the U.S., HCV accounts for 20% of all cases of acute (severe and of short duration) hepatitis, an estimated 30,000 new acute infections, and 8000 to 10,000 deaths annually. Chronic (long term) hepatitis C is predominately transmitted by percutaneous (through the skin) exposure to infected blood.

Eight Ways to Lower Your Pancreatic Cancer Risk

Pancreatic cancer generally doesn’t receive a lot of publicity, but this very aggressive cancer was brought to the public mind with the recent death of actor Patrick Swayze.

Pancreatic Cancer -- It Started With a Stomach Ache

Two and a half years ago, the week before Thanksgiving in 2006, my mom got a severe stomachache. She had pains for a few weeks but they weren’t going away, she decided to call the doctor, even though her symptoms were those similar to indigestion.

Low Stomach Acid Could Be Producing Your Heartburn Symptoms part 2

In the last blog I introduced a term called hypochlorhydria or low stomach acid. It causes pains similar to that of heartburn so just on symptoms alone it is hard to tell whether the cause is too much or too little stomach acid production.