With more and more people having a chaotic and unhealthy diet and eating habits, the heartburn symptom is becoming more and more frequent. Some are misdiagnosing the symptom as heart palpitations or even heart attack, but that’s not the case.
So what does Heartburn feel like?
- a sharp burning pain located behind the breast bone
- a stabbing like sensation in the back and/or left arm
- a feeling of pressure in the chest
- sometimes also having difficulty breathing and/or swallowing
- a feeling like what you’ve eaten rises up to the throat
- sore throat usually accompanied by a hot, sour, acidic, or bitter tasting fluid at the back of the throat and/or in the mouth
Why does Heartburn feel like it does?
The acidic contents of the stomach getting up to the lower esophagus are causing the sensation of heartburn. This occurs mostly after having large meals, bending or lying down immediately after a meal. An unbalanced diet that’s consisting of many foods that contain preservatives, chemical colorants and generally GMOs (genetically modified organisms) are major factors to the heartburn symptoms.
