18 Year Old Severe Digestion Issues
Please advise us on your expertise: My 18 year old son has problems with digestion. During and after meals he says he create alot of mucous and phelgm. Most of the time he has continous burping and nausea. He has good days and bad days. Two episodes of this problem lead to extreme nausea and burping and his skin clamy with fast heartbeat. He then vomits and has had an asthma attack. This usually has happened within 2 to 3 hours. We are told he has GERD and IBS-c because of his history of constipation. We are also to he has a weak LES muscle to the stomach. I took him off all acid medication because he was still having no relief. I currently have him on fiber tablets at nite which has helped and a vitamin B complex. sea kelp tablets and some magnesium citrate tablets. Why does the burping continue? and sometimes nausea? Why mucous in the throat only when he eats??? Year after year doctors tell us nothing or prescribed drug after drug..What are your thoughts????? Thank You!
Dear Laurie: Why does the burping continue? and sometimes nausea? Whenever a burping continue, its is my experience that it happens a lot due to a bacterium in the stomach when the stomach digests slowly leading to both fermentation (and hence the extreme burp) and constipation. A feeling of nausea can occur just before vomiting as the body desperately tries to get rid of acid overload, by getting rid of acidity in the stomach necessary to alkalized the body in a most desperate attempt to normalize the pH as the body might be acid.
I would probably measure the urinary pH. If the urinary pH is below 6.5, an a saliva in similar region, (the litmus paper tend to make it look more alkaline, but it is off, so a cheap electronic pocket pH meter is better) may sho the body is an acidosis condition. A rare case of alkalosis is possible and low blood pressure might lead to the same thing, but without the constipation due to lack of chlorides. But in this condition it seems the body needs to be more alkalized necessary to discourage bacterial growth and help faster digestion. Faster digestion occurs whenever the intestines have sufficient bicarbonates necessary to neutralize the acidic digested food fromthe stomach, without which the stomach will not pass it to the intestines because it will cause damage to the problem. Hence, at the very least 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda in 1/2 glass of water twice a day. Plus drinking some 1/4 teaspoon of sea salt mixed in 1 liter of drinking water should help. The reason is whenever a person have an electrolytic imbalance, often the body lacks certain salts, where sea salt usually have an a rich minerals salts which usually will take care of most of the weaknesses relating. It takes at least from own experience, about 3-4 weeks to stabilize the condition from bicarbonates. A more effective form, which I have not much chance to test is the 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda plus 1/4 teaspoon of citric acid which makes for a more compact form of alkaline buffers which may reduce the condition.
The foods that are sour will often creates such burping, if the person happens to like sour foods and fruit juices. Hence fruit juices and sour food I would avoid altogether.Why mucous in the throat only when he eats???
A mucous is created from the irritants caused by linings of stomach being damaged from slow stomach digestion creating fermentation, irritating the esophagus, causing the body to react to the irritants developing a mucous. It might also mean the body's detoxification is limited (due to liver congestion) which N Acetyl Cysteine, would liquify the mucus reducing such mucous also by detoxification of the liver. I have seen this to occur in some cases of paracetamol uses which damages and toxify the liver,leading to mucous condition as the body tries to expelthe toxins.
A vomiting may occur if the acid buildup is too great, and hence I think baking soda is needed, but for me it needs great patience of supplying the body with much needed alkalinity. Mind you baking soda is not the best of the remedy but most people are limited by their choices, if I were able to get a good more effective remedy, in case you are wondering, it would have to be the following:
Sodium citrate 1/2 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon of potassium citrate in 1/2 glass of water 2 times a day, once in the morning and bedtime.The second best might be sodium bicarbonate 1/2 teaspoon plus 1/8 teaspoon of potassium bicarbonate in 1/2 glass of water 2 times a day, once in the morning and and bedtime.
In both condition a liter of 1/4 teaspoon sea salt drinking water is still needed. The recovery from the ideal remedy above should reduce the time at least by 1/2 as citrates are a more faster form. Whenever acidosis exists, I have found there are three possibilities
1. Extracellular and Intracellular is acidic (most common)
2. Extracellular is acidic only
3. Intracellular is acidic only
That's just for the condition of acidosis. On the flip side an alkalosis ones have the same pattern where extracellular and intracellur is alkaline, and vice versa, unfortunately an alkalosis cannot lead to constipation or constant burping, but it does cause a weak heart from low levels of salts, causing the body to retain way too much bicarbonates causing alkalosis, and a sea salt remedy and sometimes iodine would resolved that problem. However in an acidosis, both the sodium and the potassium and preferably magnesium is considered so that the alkalinity can be accomplished at pretty muchthe same time and hence faster in normalizing the body's condition.
One other thing is vitamin A, vitamin C, vitamin E, and Vitamin D, and essential oils may help normalize the liver function, but those are taken twice a week might reduce some mucus, especially the vitamin A. In certain instances, lack of antioxidants may lead to excess mucus but the issue of alkalinity and liver detoxification (from N Acetyl Cysteine) I would deal it first
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