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Heartburn Learning Center

Symptoms could include:
Heartburn itself is a symptom. Other symptoms also caused by gastroesophageal reflux can be associated with heartburn. Often heartburn sufferers salivate excessively or regurgitate stomach contents into their mouths, leaving a sour or bitter taste...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Heartburn itself is a symptom of gastroesophageal reflux and GERD. Heartburn sufferers may salivate excessively or regurgitate stomach contents into their mouths, leaving a sour or bitter taste. Other symptoms of GERD include: difficult or painful...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Chest pain is discomfort or pain that you feel anywhere along the front of your body between your neck and upper abdomen.
Source:ADAM
Date:June 1, 2009
Belching is the act of bringing up air from the stomach. It produces a characteristic (typical) sound.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 31, 2009
Dysphagia is a disorder of swallowing.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Pain is a universal human experience. The International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) defines pain as "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with actual or potential tissue damage or described in terms of such damage...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
Pain, medically termed "nociception," is a response to noxious stimuli that is conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons . The discomfort signals actual or impending injury to the body. However, pain is more than a sensation, or the physical awaren...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Nursing and Allied Health
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons. The discomfort signals actual or potential injury to the body. However, pain is more than a sensation, or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception, ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by sensory neurons. The discomfort signals actual or potential injury to the body. However, pain is more than a sensation, or the physical awareness of pain; it also includes perception, ...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Pain is an unpleasant feeling that is conveyed to the brain by nerves in the body.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Almost all babies go through a fussy period. When crying lasts for longer than about three hours a day and is not caused by a medical problem (such as a hernia or infection), it is called colic. This phenomenon occurs in almost all babies. The onl...
Source:ADAM
Date:August 2, 2009
Colic is defined as when a baby cries for longer than three hours every day for more than three days a week. It is the extreme end of normal crying behavior. The condition is harmless, even though it is distressing for parents or caregivers.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Children's Health
Colic is persistent, unexplained crying and discomfort in an otherwise healthy baby between the ages of two weeks and about five months.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Alternative Medicine
Colic is persistent, unexplained crying in a healthy baby between two weeks and five months of age.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine
Intense abdominal discomfort typically affecting infants under three months of age and whose cause is unknown. In the first weeks and months after birth, an estimated 10% of all infants exhibit symptoms of intense abdominal pain, accompanied by th...
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence
Anorexia is characterized by a loss of appetite or lack of desire to eat.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Cancer
Difficulty with swallowing is the sensation that food is stuck in the throat, or from the neck down to just above the abdomen behind the breastbone (sternum.
Source:ADAM
Date:October 20, 2009
Swallowing disorders (also called dysphagia) are any conditions that cause impairment of the movement of solids or fluids from the mouth, down the throat, and into the stomach.
Source:Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders
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