The LES is a specialized valve muscle found between the esophagus and the stomach, permitting the entrance of liquid and food and making sure that while digesting, everything stays in the stomach.
A lot of factors may be the cause to the weakened or relaxed LES bringing forth the symptoms of acid reflux disorder.
This article focuses on the later category.
There have been patients found to have atypically weak LES muscles, making it unfit in stopping the acid backflow from happening.
Hiatal Hernia
It is medical diagnosis where the patient is found to have a stomach that protrudes upward way into the diaphragm.
Another case where protrusion may occur is when the diaphragm has a tear that allows the stomach to occupy the space in the tear.
Pregnancy
Acid reflux disorder may affect pregnant women not only because of the space that the fetus takes causing the slight shift in the arrangement of the organs.
Weight Gain
It has long since been known that obesity is a great risk factor to acquiring acid reflux disorder.
When one gains weight, the abdominal pressure is increased and this in turn affects the functionality of the LES.
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