Heartburn is the first sign of a gastric disorder that shouldn't be ignored.

Heartburn is the first sign of a gastric disorder that shouldn't be ignored.

We've all seen television ads pushing remedies to relieve heartburn, or acid indigestion, the searing pain up the middle of the chest that sometimes pursues a meal or crops up when we're subject to stress. Heartburn symptoms run the gamut from annoying to debilitating. At their worst, they can on a level be mistaken for a heart attack.

The cause of heartburn is gastroesophageal ebb disease (GERD), a condition in which acidified stomach satisfactions flow back from the stomach into the aliment pipe (esophagus). Heartburn is usually