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Q: acid reflux treatment without medication?
my boyfriend has had acid reflux for several years, and has been taking medication on top of it. He recently told me he does not want to take medication because of the side effects, but we aren’t sure how to remedy the heartburn and acid reflux. does anyone have any suggestions, experiances, or anything to help?

A: Papaya enzyme – 2 tablets 3x daily
Zinc – 50 mg daily
Vitamin A – 20,000 iu daily
Vitamin B complex – 100 mg 2x daily
Vitamin C – up to 1500 mg daily

Aloe Vera juice – 1/4 cup morning and night
(promotes healing of the intestinal lining)

At the first sign of heartburn, drink two glasses of water.
Avoid fats and processed foods.
Consume a diet of at least 50% raw fruits, vegetables, juices, nuts and seeds, to improve digestion and elimination.
Do not eat within three hours of bedtime.
No heavy lifting.
Do not smoke.
Eat several small meals throughout the day.

This works quickly- generally within two weeks, at which time the supplements can be decreased. However, symptoms will return when the individual resumes old eating habits.

Q: i suffer from acid reflux disease, i hear licquorice root is an effective treatment, is there any side effects
ive been told licquorice roots has side effects such as high blood pressure, diarrea and stomach cramping. all side effects i suffer from when taking prescription meds. for acid reflux. is there any effect treatment for acid reflux with miminal side effects?

A: I hope this helps. A lot of problems come from how/what we eat and combine our foods together. Let me explain.

It was the first time I cooked dinner for my then-boyfriend. I didn’t know it back then, but my own cure began with a question from this man who would later become my husband(Mike)

Shortly after we met, I made dinner for him and he asked if it would be alright if he didn’t eat one of the foods I had prepared. He said it all looked wonderful, but that the combination would give him a stomach ache. I didn’t know what he meant, since nothing was fried and no hot spices were used.

It was then that he asked me the question that literally changed my life forever!

Mike asked me, “Have you heard of food combining?”

My immediate answer was “no” I hadn’t heard of it. Even though it wasn’t anything new, and had been endorsed by many health experts, peak performance experts and celebrities and more – I really had never heard of FOOD COMBINING.

After hearing about how “mis-combining” leads to acidosis, acid-reflux, heartburn and a host of other digestive problems, I had my first “properly combined” meal…

And I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPTOMS WHATSOEVER!

NO PAIN! NOTHING!

That’s right…

NO cramps
NO bloated stomach
NO excessive gas
NO ‘IBS’
NO acid reflux
NO constipation
NO running to the bathroom
NO horrendous pain

Can you imagine how relieved I felt after all those years? If you have ever suffered any of these symptoms, even mildly, you will understand why I was wild with joy!

Sherry Brescia

Q: Treatment for Acid Reflux?
Does anyone know a good doctor in India for the treatment of Acid Reflux? I have had Acid Reflux for a long time now, and have tried allopathy, homeopathy and then back to allopathy but my condition has worsened now. I am restricting my diet but the medications don’t seem to work.
Does anyone know a good doctor recommended for Acid Reflux treatment?

A: Other Treatments for acid reflux include:
Antacids- These can and should be used more often. Generally, antacids should be taken 30 to 60 minutes after eating and at bedtime. Liquids are preferred to tablets, with the strongest being Maalox II, Mylanta II, Gelusil II and Extra Strength Riopan.
Alginic Acid and Antacids- Two products, Gaviscon and Algicon, place a layer of foam over the fluid in the stomach to prevent reflux. These tablets should be chewed well and used 30 to 60 minutes after eating and at bedtime.

http://www.starpoli.com/acid-reflux.html

Q: Who knows of the best treatment for acid reflux condition or “Gerd”?
I would prefer to not have to be on prilosec 2 times a day. It does not seem to be helping. Is a natural remedy or a better medication somewhere out there?

A: You try giving your stomach a rest for a week. Cut out all acid type foods. This would include orange juice, grapefruits, tomatoes, carbonated beverages, coffee and chocolate.

Eat Oatmeal everyday. It seems to coat the stomach and lessen the amount of acid that is regurgitated. Don’t eat large meals–instead eat several small meals a day.

Do not eat a large meal as your Dinner. Often the large meal is a major culprit when you lie down for bed.

Peppermint and Ginger are also natural remedies that can give you some relief.

I’ve had GERD for years. It acts up when I eat the wrong foods or too much food. When I start the oatmeal diet, the symptoms definitely lessen.

Q: What is best treatment for acid reflux disease besides Nexium?

A: Omeprazole, and lanzoprazole are the best medicines for that. You can try the OTC version of Prilosec.

Of course, it is always recommendable to get a doctor’s opinion.

Q: What is natural treatment for acid reflux?

A: The one best thing you can do is to start taking a daily probiotic and enzymes. The probiotic, either in pill form or by adding kefir to your daily routine. Usually a 1 time daily thing. The enzymes should be taken with every meal. The will help get your digestive system balanced back out.

I have actually done the above when experience serious acid reflux. It was purely accidental. I had been “treating” but never cured. We added the digestive enzymes and probiotics for another reason. But I noticed that after a week or so on this regimen, I no longer needed a glass of milk to quell the acid reflux at bedtime. It has been wonderful to be rid of that, after over a year of constant problem.

What worked best for me before it disappearing was a glass of milk. Apple cider vinegar is a good suggestion also.

Q: What is the natural treatment for acid reflux (Gastroesophageal reflux disease)?
I take drugs for treatment too.

A: “Drink about 1 gallon of filtered water daily. Normally, you should try to drink enough water each day to keep your urine a light yellow shade. However, when you suffer from acid reflux, more water may be necessary to dilute the acid and normalize the pH in your stomach.
Do not eat within 3 hours of bedtime. This allows your stomach to empty and acid production to decrease. If you don’t eat, your body isn’t making acid to digest the food.
Do not lying down right after eating at any time of day.
Elevate the head of your bed 6 inches with blocks. Gravity helps prevent reflux.
Avoid eating large meals. Eating a lot of food at one time increases the amount of acid needed to digest it.
Eat smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day.
Avoid fatty or greasy foods, chocolate, caffeine, mints or mint-flavored foods, spicy foods, citrus, and tomato-based foods.
Avoid alcohol. Alcohol increases the likelihood that acid from your stomach will back up.
Stop smoking. Smoking weakens the lower esophageal sphincter and increases reflux.
Lose excess weight. Overweight and obese people are much more likely to have bothersome reflux than people of healthy weight.
Stand upright or sitting up straight, maintains good posture. This helps food and acid pass through the stomach instead of backing up into the esophagus.
Talk to your health care provider about taking over-the-counter pain relievers such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), or medicines for osteoporosis. These can aggravate reflux in some people.
The methods above, along with high doses of quality probiotics go a long way toward restoring normal stomach function for most people. Cevan International’s Digestive Health Complementary Therapy provides the comprehensive nutritional defense your digestive tract needs in order to properly digest food and remain healthy.
Complementary Therapy includes Cévan Nutritionals®Veradophilus; formulated to provide a unique blend of five different strains of probiotic bacteria grown under strictly controlled laboratory conditions. The contents of VERADOPHILUS ensure comprehensive potent probiotic support that promotes a healthy intestinal environment. Veradophilus can help restore healthy microorganism levels that may have been depleted by highly processed foods, commonly consumed chemicals, antibiotics, oral contraceptives, stress, illness, and poor diet.
Complementary Therapy also includes AstaTrienol, whichhelps the body’s protective responses to defend and comfort the entire digestive system, from top to bottom. As a powerful nutrient blend, AstaTrienol provides nutritional support that helps the body modulate the inflammatory response which can be part of Acid Reflux.
ut 1 gallon of filtered water daily. Normally, you should try to drink enough water each day to keep your urine a light yellow shade. However, when you suffer from acid reflux, more water may be necessary to dilute the acid and normalize the pH in your stomach.
Do not eat within 3 hours of bedtime. This allows your stomach to empty and acid production to decrease. If you don’t eat, your body isn’t making acid to digest the food.
Do not lying down right after eating at any time of day.
Elevate the head of your bed 6 inches with blocks. Gravity helps prevent reflux.
Avoid eating large meals. Eating a lot of food at one time increases the amount of acid needed to digest it.
Eat smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day.
Avoid fatty or greasy foods, chocolate, caffeine, mints or mint-flavored foods, spicy foods, citrus, and tomato-based foods.
Avoid alcohol. Alcohol increases the likelihood that acid from your stomach will back up.
Stop smoking. Smoking weakens the lower esophageal sphincter and increases reflux.
Lose excess weight. Overweight and obese people are much more likely to have bothersome reflux than people of healthy weight.
Stand upright or sitting up straight, maintains good posture. This helps food and acid pass through the stomach instead of backing up into the esophagus.
Talk to your health care provider about taking over-the-counter pain relievers such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), or medicines for osteoporosis. These can aggravate reflux in some people.
The methods above, along with high doses of quality probiotics go a long way toward restoring normal stomach function for most people. Cevan International’s Digestive Health Complementary Therapy provides the comprehensive nutritional defense your digestive tract needs in order to properly digest food and remain healthy.
Complementary Therapy includes Cévan Nutritionals®Veradophilus; formulated to provide a unique blend of five different strains of probiotic bacteria grown under strictly controlled laboratory conditions. The contents of VERADOPHILUS ensure comprehensive potent probiotic support that promotes a healthy intestinal environment. Veradophilus can help restore healthy microorganism levels that may have been depleted by highly processed foods, commonly consumed chemicals, antibiotics, oral contraceptives, stress, illness, and poor diet.
Complementary Therapy also includes AstaTrienol, whichhelps the body’s protective responses to defend and comfort the entire digestive system, from top to bottom. As a powerful nutrient blend, AstaTrienol provides nutritional support that helps the body modulate the inflammatory response which can be part of Acid Reflux.”

Q: what is the best natural treatment for acid reflux have tried apple cider vinegar, baking soda?
am taking nexium but has terrible side effects

A: Well taking apple vinegar is simply moronic. The other things you have taken will be a temporary fix. The problem can be caused by a hiatal hernia, and if you have a bad one then surgery is the only fix. But there are some logical things you can try. First if you are overweight try to lose some. I know when I lose weight my acid reflux goes away. Next if it bothers you at night, then don’t eat for at least 2 hours prior to bedtime. Don’t wear tight pants, and don’t eat or drink acid foods like coffee, orange juice that sort of thing. I know bananas kill me. If all fails then drugs is the treatment of choice and since nexium is not working there are others on the market. Try prilosec otc. or pepsid AC they are both otc and cheap to try. If the drugs are not working then it is time to do more. Acid reflux can increase your chances of esophageal cancer, and that is a very deadly form of cancer.

Q: Natural Treatment For Heartburn/Acid Reflux?
Does anyone know a natural cure/ treatment for heartburn/acid reflux? It’s so bad it feels like my chest is going to explode. The doctor recommended Prilosec, which works beautifully but raises my blood pressure to dangerous levels(240+/220+). Zantac also works but causes a discharge to come out of my left nipple. Any recommendations?

A: Anything thats alkaline in nature. For mild heartburn milk is a quick and easy way to get rid of it. As already suggested, baking soda is also good. Since yours is so bad I would suggest seeing a nutritionist, or taking a thorough look through your diet. You might be better off trying to reduce some of the acidic foods you are eating, rather than purely trying to treat the results

Q: what’s a medical treatment that can help acid reflux.?
what’s a medical that can help acid reflux? my mom has it and cant find anything to help her. And we contacted our doctor he said pepnobispo or how ever you spell that pink crap anyways its not helping so do you know any median that can cure or help this please answer 10 points!

A: It sounds as if your physician wasn’t very helpful, prescribing Pepto-Bismol for acid reflux.

Your mother may have GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease) http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/gerd/DS00967. This happens when the lower esophageal sphincter http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/2006/0209/6867277.jpg doesn’t close properly and stomach acids back up into the esophagus.

GERD is treated with PPIs (proton pump inhibitors) and H2 receptor antagonists. Both of these work directly on the stomach to decrease acid production.

PPIs include Nexium, Protonix, AcipHex, and Prilosec (the last one is available over-the-counter).
H2 receptor antagonists include Zantac, Tagament, Pepcid, and Axid. Most of these are also available over-the-counter.

It can take at least 8 weeks for GERD symptoms to go away after starting medication if the esophagus has been damaged by stomach acids. The esophagus is capable of healing itself quickly once stomach acids have been decreased.

In drastic cases, fundoplication surgery can be done http://www.webmd.com/heartburn-gerd/fundoplication-surgery-for-gastroesophageal-reflux-disease-gerd, but this surgery doesn’t seem to have a very high success rate.

Your mother should see a physician (a good one) and ask for a prescription for a PPI or an H2 blocker. I personally recommend Nexium or AcipHex, both of which helped my GERD.

If your mother doesn’t want to see a physician, she should try one of the over-the-counter medications listed above. Remember, she should take the medication for at least 8 weeks.

Q: If no medicine or treatment is taken for acid reflux,can anything worse occur?
My husband has acid reflux and his doctor prescribed Prevacid for him, he has yet to start taking it though. Other than the awful feeling it causes him, if he leaves it untreated, will anything else inside of him suffer, longterm?

A: Yes, constant acid reflux can cause esophageal and pharyngeal damage that can lead to ulcers, and in some rare instances, cancer or rupture of varicies caused by portal hypertension.

Q: www.asking for treatment of acid reflux disease.?
are there natural treatments for the disease?

A: I hope this helps. A lot of problems come from how/what we eat and combine our foods together. Let me explain.

It was the first time I cooked dinner for my then-boyfriend. I didn’t know it back then, but my own cure began with a question from this man who would later become my husband(Mike)

It was then that he asked me the question that literally changed my life forever!

Mike asked me, “Have you heard of food combining?”

After hearing about how “mis-combining” leads to acidosis, acid-reflux, heartburn and a host of other digestive problems, I had my first “properly combined” meal…

And I HAD ABSOLUTELY NO SYMPTOMS WHATSOEVER!

NO PAIN! NOTHING!

That’s right…

NO cramps
NO bloated stomach
NO excessive gas
NO ‘IBS’
NO acid reflux
NO constipation
NO running to the bathroom
NO horrendous pain

Can you imagine how relieved I felt after all those years? If you have ever suffered any of these symptoms, even mildly, you will understand why I was wild with joy!

Sherry Brescia

Q: How effective is the use of apple cider vinegar in acid reflux?
I have a friend who has acid reflux and I am wondering about methods of helping her without rx drugs or zantac. How effective is apple cider vinegar in the treatment of acid relux and are there other things out there that would help? Thank you

A: Apparently the most common natural remedy. 2Tsp Apple Cider Vinegar in water 3 times a day.
See URL Link www.earthclinic.com/CURES/acid_reflus.html
6 small meals a day vs 3 large
Do not lie down with a full stomach
Prop at least 3 pillows in bed for your head, so acid, food does not reflux back up the esophagus
Stay away from greasy, fatty foods, citrus, caffeine…irritants

Q: is there any alternative treatment to reduce GERD(acid reflux).Halitosis could be because of Reflux?

A: THERE ARE MANY REMEDIES AVAILABLE TO REDUCE AND EVEN GET RID OF GERD. WHENEVER, YOU HAVE A HEARTBURN TAKE TWO TO THREE TABLE SPOON OF PURE HONEY. THE HONEY WILL WORK FAR BETTER THAN MANY ANTACIDS.

TRY TO CONCENTRATE ON YOUR EATING PATTERN. THAT MEANS, TIMINGS OF YOUR MEALS. DO NOT SKIP MEALS AND THEN HOG AT ONE TIME. EAT SMALLER MEALS ALL THE TIME. IF YOU ARE FEELING VERY HUNGRY AND WANT TO EAT EIGHT CHAPATIS THEN EAT SIX.

IF YOU SMOKE OR DRINK ALCOHOL THEN STOP THEM IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT EAT TOO MUCH FAT AND FRIED THINGS.

DRINK FIVE TO SIX NORMAL SIZE GLASSES OF WATER IN THE MORNING, THIS WILL HELP TO REGULATE YOUR MOTION. THE CONSTIPATION IS ALSO MAIN CAUSE OF HEART BURN AND GERD.

MOST BUT NOT THE LEAST, GETTING RID OF GERD MAKE THIS AS YOUR NEW YEAR RESOLUTION BECAUSE IT IS EASY TO WORK ON A PROBLEM IF YOU ARE TOTALLY FOCUSED ON IT AND ACT ON IT EVERYDAY.

REMEMBER, CONSTANT GERD OR HEARTBURN CAN LEAD TO OESOPHAGEAL CANCER IN LONG TERM.

BUT CHEER UP, IF I CAN GET RID OF MY GERD THEN YOU CAN ALSO DO IT TOO. THE ONLY THING YOU HAVE TO REMEMBER IS TO FIRST FIND OUT THE CAUSE OF YOUR GERD.

MY OTHER SUGGESTION IS TO GET YOUR ENDOSCOPY DONE IF IT IS A ONGOING PROBLEM FOR SOMETIME.

IF YOU WANT A COMPLETE REPORT ON GERD THEN EMAIL ME AT VIBASHARMA@HOTMAIL.COM

Q: Acid reflux?
My baby had the following symptoms since birth (now he is 7 mo) but doctors in our country don’t say anything about reflux or its possible treatment, all they say is that babies have horizontally positioned stomach and the opening muscle is weak and they have these symptoms and they will grow out of it. But I see my baby suffer a lot, so I want to know whether his symptoms show that he has reflux. If he does I want to give him Zantac.
He: sometimes spits up after eating,
fusses and when held upright burps a lot
hiccups a lot, usually starts after a burp
arches his back when being fed
refuses to sleep, arching his back, wakes up a lot during the night
he refused to eat from 2 mo till he was 5mo (I forced during that period)
now eats only 3.5-5 oz per time (25 oz per day), little appetite
he is little underweight
Please, help me to determine whether he has reflux. I repeat, I went to lots of doctors they don’t know about reflux.
Thank you all for replying, I don’t know how to rate though
My son is formula fed, I switched many different and this Korean one is the one he likes and eats. I took him to pediatricians, they would only say something about child’s stomach characteristics. What is reflux anyway? What exactly will I see if I take him to upper GI? Also, what is the exact name of Efamil AR and Gentle ease, I looked it up and there were soo many different Efamils.
Thank you!

A: For my son I used the Enfamil A.R. Lipil which worked very good for him.

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