dyspeptic:

(plural: ‘dyspeptics‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘dys’ rhyme with the letters ‘dis’ in the word “discontinue”; and the letter ‘c’ is pronounced with a ‘k’ sound — the word is pronounced roughly with the sound ‘dis.pep.tik’)

‘dyspepsia’ = an illness in which the patient cannot digest his/her food properly

a person who suffers from or is affected by dyspepsia,

a dyspeptic, trouble eating and disgesting

e.g.

My friend cannot enjoy grilled or spicy foods because he is a dyspeptic.

A person with irregular eating habits may soon become a dyspeptic.

There are many treatment methods to give some comfort to dyspeptics but, as many doctors suggest, the best method is to eat what suits them and what makes them feel comfortable.

The number of dyspeptics are more in cities than in villages, and some of the common factors that are attributed to this increase in numbers are anxiety, stress, irregular food habits and alcohol consumption.

For an informative article about dyspeptics, please click here and for a blog post that has some useful tips for ordinary dyspeptics, please click here.

a dyspeptic suffering from stomach ache

Note 1: ‘Dyspeptic’ is more commonly used as an adjective referring to people that are related to ‘dyspeptics’, e.g. ‘dyspeptic patient’, ‘dyspeptic disorder’, etc.
Note 2: ‘Dyspeptic’ as an adjective is also used of issues that have nothing to do with digestion of food, but are related to difficult, hard to understand or believe or gloomy matters, e.g. ‘dyspeptic view’. For an article that has this medical word used for other non-medical issues, please click here & please click here & please click here.