Do you feel something wrong with your stomach after eating a meal? These irritants may be to blame

Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) — Do you feel something is wrong in your stomach after eating? Which meal was responsible for it? Or was it the result of a psychological distress?

Different types of foods, and even your psychological state, can affect your digestive system, but irritants differ from one person to another, according to the Gulf Health Council’s official account in a tweet on “Twitter” in a guide to the stomach .

These gastrointestinal irritants include:

• Spices and hot foods

Consuming spicy foods in large quantities causes gastric juice from the stomach to back up into the esophagus, causing heartburn (heartburn).

Most spicy foods contain a compound called capsaicin, which irritates the lining of the stomach and intestines, causing the stomach to speed up the digestion process to get rid of it as soon as possible, which leads to diarrhea.

• High fat food

Fat is one of the foods that digests slowly, which leads to food staying longer in the stomach and feeling nauseous and bloated.

• Anxiety and stress

And psychological factors affect the gut, and that means stress, anxiety, or depression affect the movement and contractions of the digestive system.

• Processed food

Processed foods include sausages, mortadella (processed meats), and canned fruit.

Its nutritional value is low because it contains fat, high amounts of salts and sugars, as well as a lack of dietary fiber, which causes constipation and indigestion.

The guide also referred to nutritional behaviors that positively affect the digestive system, including good chewing of food, as it facilitates digestion, organizing meals and drinking more water.