Question

Milk of magnesia used as a medicine for treating indigestion is a substance that -

• A. Helps in disintegration of food products leading to their facile metabolism.
• B. Combines with gastric hydrochloric acid thereby enhancing the latter's efficiency
• C. Improves the enzymatic activities inside the stomach.
• D. Neutralises excess acidity, providing a buffered medium inside the stomach.

Answer 1

Answer: (D)

Neutralises excess acidity, providing a buffered medium inside the stomach.

Milk of magnesia used as a medicine for treating indigestion is a substance that neutralises excess acidity, providing a buffered medium inside the stomach.