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I'm curious if consuming sodium bicarbonate or Eno fruit salt could alleviate discomfort after eating a cheese pizza.

Edit: After reading some enlightening responses, I'm uncertain about the specific element causing my issues—whether it's the cheese, sauce, or bread. I can consume each component separately without any problems. However, when I eat pizza, I often experience sluggish digestion, especially if it's close to bedtime, leading to a burning sensation in the morning. I suspect it might be acid reflux triggered by a substantial meal. Perhaps a short walk after eating could help speed up digestion.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 8 months ago

You might be lactose intolerant, in which case taking lactase enzyme pills immediately before eating may relieve your discomfort.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago

Depends on what your tummy doesn't love about pizza.

Cheese? Lactose intolerance. Take some lactase.

Sauce? Sensitive to acidity or tomatoes? Take Omeprazole.

Bread? I'm sorry for your loss. It's gluten free or bust.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Depends on which part you're having trouble digesting.

Personally, I feel pretty darn good after eating a pizza.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

If you aren’t lactose intolerant, this is something I just recently learned: chew your food very well. I know, it sounds like a given, but our stomachs and intestines don’t have teeth or any effective way to grind our food down into tiny pieces. Even something that seems softer, like cheese pizza, is a lot of work to break down into digestible pieces past our mouths. To some extent I have caused myself needless suffering by underchewing my food.

Weird way to think about it “drink your food, chew your drinks” let your saliva work on the stuff too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Even actual digestion, breaking down with enzymes, starts in the mouth. The more you chew, the more digestion has already started before it hits your poor overworked stomach. And pizza works the stomach hard!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

If I eat specifically before bed...

That's the problem. You'd likely get heartburn after eating most foods if you eat just before going to bed. Don't eat that close to bed time and it shouldn't happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

If you do, bitters can help a bit.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

This 10000%

I had to learn this the hard way when my stomach randomly decided to give up during pandemic. Try not to eat 2 hours before bed time. You can have a light snack if you must (I usually do saltines), but nothing that is heavy to digest.

Pizza is very heavy to digest

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

If you are lactose intolerant, you may find this entertaining. Note, I am not recommending you try it. But it's fun to watch this guy try it.

https://youtu.be/aoczYXJeMY4?si=OR84HsF-0ivKoW6Y

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Don't eat within a few hours of going to bed. It's likely you have light acid reflux and sleeping with a full stomach, particularly when it's full of something so rich and acidic, will compound the problem significantly.

Also I'd recommend lowering the amount you're eating. Eat just until you're no longer hungry, not to the point that you're full. If you want an extra slice later as a snack cold pizza is awesome, but you can't un-eat the slice or slices that are punishing your guts.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

Is the pizza super oily? I noticed greasy pizza gives me awful heartburn

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

That really depends. Which gives you more issues, greasy diner food without cheese, or a milkshake? If it’s the former sodium bicarbonate or bismuth subalycylate should help as will limiting your fat consumption earlier in the day. If it’s the latter try lactase

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Lots of water, fibre and lactase

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Pretty sure it also does a great job digesting you as well if I recall correctly from watching nile red videos

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

I use something called "Dairy digest complete" before eating any 🧀, because if I don't I spend an hour holding on to the 🚽 in fear of 🚀.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can I just say that I enjoyed the addition of the emojis there. They really brought a sense of fun to the story of you shitting your guts out uncontrollably. 👍

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

I had to make it fun in some way.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

This would have been an emoticon ad-lib if you remove "taking off" and just leave the rocket.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I did an edit!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Have you tried sleeping on your left side after a heavy meal before bed ? Helps a lot with mitigating any digestion problems, due to how the digestive system is made

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

I wonder if I'm the only one who thought the title was a euphemism