If you are trying to learn about the common causes of heartburn you will no doubt come across a number of options though the two main common causes of heartburn seem to be your diet as well as your lifestyle. It is interesting to note that most people when they are told that the most common causes of heartburn are their diet as well as their lifestyles will scoff at the idea and even ignore it completely.
Control What You Eat
However, the more responsible people will understand that diet is indeed one of the main common causes of heartburn and so will learn to control what they eat. This means having to forego eating acidic foods, spiced up foods as well as fried foods that are all known to trigger an onset of heartburn. Similarly, if you eat a large amount of food it can make your stomach start producing excessive acid which if it escapes from the stomach via the lower esophageal sphincter and then enters your esophagus will cause you to suffer from heartburn.
Since no two individuals are going to eat the same types of foods and nor are they going to have to deal with the same intensity of heartburn, it helps if you keep a food diary that can help you find out what foods you ate that brought on an attack of heartburn.
Even beverages are known to be among the more common causes of heartburn, especially your alcohol and citrus juice as too carbonated drinks and also any drinks that contain caffeine. All of these beverages cause an increase in acidity that can lead to esophageal irritation and consequent heartburn.
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Your lifestyle too can be one of the main common causes of heartburn as living a life of elevated amounts of stress can easily cause your stomach to produce more acid than is required and when the excess acid flows out and gets into the esophagus you will suffer from a heartburn attack. Similarly, smoking cigarettes leads to production of acid as well as relaxation of the lower esophageal sphincter and the latter case means that acids will be able to flow out of the stomach and into the esophagus and so again you will suffer from heartburn.
The proper heartburn treatment obviously revolves around cutting out the heartburn-triggering foods/beverages as well as making changes to your lifestyle. In other instances it could involve popping an antacid or taking some medications and in extreme cases it could mean undergoing surgery.
