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Dyspepsia.Acute indigestion may be occasioned by gormandizing, by taking indigestible articles of food into the stomach, by excessive mental emotion, bodily fatigue, etc. The disorder is indicated by a feeling of fulness, weight, and pain over the stomach, which con tinue until nausea and usually vomiting occur. The bowels are at first constipated, but subsequently become relaxed. Mean while there is some fever, and dull, aching pain in the head, con stituting what is ordinarily known as " sick headache. " For several days after these prominent symptoms have subsided the patient suffers from general indisposition, bitter taste in the mouth, and impaired appetite. In other cases the difficulty is not traceable directly to errors in diet, but seems to occur as the result of taking cold. In these cases there is less pain and uneasiness in the stomach, but the feel ing of nausea is usually greater, and the headache is very severe. The matter vomited is greenish or yellowish in appearance, and has a bitter taste - it contains, in fact, the bile. The tongue is heavily coated, and the patient has a bitter taste in the mouth; the face is often sallow, the bowels are usually constipated. This is the condition popularly known as " biliousness," and is really a catarrh of the stomach and the upper part of the small intestine ; when the headache is so severe as to be the most promi nent symptom, this affection, like the other form of acute indiges tion, is called u sick headache. " Treatment*-If the symptoms be caused by errors of diet, but little is necessary beside abstinence from food for twenty-four hours ; the prevalent practice of dosing such patients with cathar tics and emetics certainly does not hasten recovery. All that is necessary is to give the stomach a rest and a chance to recover from the effects of the abuse to which it has been subjected. If the patient must take medicine, he may have some alkaline water, mag nesia, or the bicarbonate of sodium. The treatment of a so-called " bilious attack " is somewhat different. In these cases it is well to administer a cathartic so soon as the vomiting has subsided a little. For this purpose three grains of blue-mass combined with ten grains of the bicarbonate of sodium may be given at night, and followed the next morning by some cit rate of magnesia ; or, instead of the blue-mass, one fourth of a grain of podophyllin (May-apple) may be given at night. A bil ious attack can often be warded off at the appearance of the first symptoms. To accomplish this the patient should restrict his diet to a small quantity of food of a bland character, and should take the blue-mass and soda at night, as recommended above. If this be done when the headache and feeling of nausea are just begin ning, it is often possible to escape the subsequent symptoms of an ordinary attack. But first, if you want to come back to this web site again, just add it to your bookmarks or favorites now! Then you'll find it easy! Also, please consider sharing our helpful website with your online friends.
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