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Excerpt From An Article JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com – Patients who do not want to run fast to worry about the recurrence of the illness so disturbed. In fact, fasting is good and very useful to heal the ulcer in total. As stated by Dr. Ari H Fahrial Sham from Gastroenterology Division, Department of Medicine Faculty of Medicine University of Indonesia, in Jakarta, Wednesday (19 / 8).

He explains, ulcer or dyspepsia is basically a digestive disorders that cause pain or discomfort in the gut region. According to, the type of dyspepsia is divided into two namely functional and organic dyspepsia.

In organic dyspepsia, endoscopic abnormalities occur, such as esophageal ulcers, stomach or intestinal ulcers twelve fingers. While in functional dyspepsia, endoscopy was normal. Still according to Dr. Ari, most of the problems encountered dyspeptic patients today are functional.

Causes of functional dyspepsia group, among others, emerged because people are not eating regularly, eating high-fat snacks, drink coffee / soft drinks, smoking, including psychological problems (stress).

Ordering food at the time of fasting will improve the digestion pattern. Thus, it can be concluded, functional dyspepsia be improved or even cured when fasting.

"All the functional ulcer patients can fast, with due observance of food and drink consumption," said Dr. Ari. However, there are “taboo” foods that ulcer sufferers should be noted that fasting brings a positive blessing and not vice versa.

Here are some of intakes of foods to avoid ulcer patients in the month of fasting.

1. Foods that contain lots of gas, including mustard, cabbage, jackfruit, banana, sodas.

2. Foods those are difficult to digest, which would slow gastric emptying among other things, and cheese tart.

3. Foods that stimulate excess stomach acid expenses include coffee, alcohol, white wine, citrus juices, full cream milk.

4. Food that directly damage the gastric wall, such as vinegar, marinated spicy, foods containing pepper.

5. Foods that weaken the esophageal valve include alcohol, chocolate, fried foods.

6. Source of carbohydrates, such as glutinous rice, noodles, rice noodles, sweet cassava, taro, or lunkhead.