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Digestive Health

Acid Reflux
Acid Reflux
Acid Reflux
Acid reflux is known by a number of names including GORD (gastro oesophageal reflux disease), reflux, dyspepsia and heartburn. This condition is caused by what happens to your food and drink after you have eaten.
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Bad Breath
It is difficult to detect when you have halitosis, or bad breath. But all of us have suffered from getting too close to others with bad breath and have not enjoyed the experience!
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Constipation
Constipation
Constipation
When you are constipated you produce a bowel motion less often than you usually do. Your normal bowel habit is normal to you. Some people produce a bowel movement three times a week, other three times a day.
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Diarrhoea
Diarrhoea
Diarrhoea
The word diarrhoea, when translated from Greek, means “flow through”. People are diagnosed with diarrhoea when they have three or more loose bowel motions in a day. Often this is accompanied with sharp cramping stomach pain before the motion is passed and a desperate need to find a toilet quickly.
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E Coli
Escherichia coli (E coli) is a type of bacteria. An infection with this variety of bacteria generally causes diarrhoea. Children and the sick and elderly are particularly susceptible to more serious effects from this infection.
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Flatulence
Flatulence
Flatulence
Flatulence, or wind, occurs in everyone. However for some of us, removal of this gas either upwards as belching or burping, or downwards as flatus or farting, is embarrassing, uncomfortable and painful until expelled. Often it’s not particularly pleasant for those around us either.
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Gluten Intolerance
Intolerance to gluten takes many forms - from coeliac disease, which is a severe reaction to gluten containing foods, to wheat allergies or sensitivity to gluten in the diet. As a result, many people confine themselves to a gluten-free diet.
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Haemorrhoids
Haemorrhoids or ‘piles’ are swollen veins in the anus or bottom, usually just inside the external entrance of the bowel. Occasionally they can protrude or pop out, often immediately after or during a bowel motion.
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Heartburn
Heartburn
Heartburn
Heartburn occurs when acids and other fluids that digest food leak up from the stomach into the oesophagus.
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Worms
Worms are one of the most common conditions that children catch, occasionally from pets, but usually from themselves, or other infected people. There are several types of worms that can affect humans, but in New Zealand the usual culprit is the threadworm.
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Te Awamutu
Waikato 3840
New Zealand
(07) 871 6236
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