Heartburn and Acid Reflux Relief Blog

If you had any doubts about whether eating early helps reducing nighttime heartburn look at this link with scientific article from Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Gastroentérologie, Lausanne, Switzerland.
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1434162
It pretty clearly proves that if you go to bed at 11pm and have later dinner at 9pm your pH will be 1.39. If you have early dinner at [...]

Good news for those with Barret’s esophagus.
Nebraska Medical Center, offers the BARRX Medical HALO ablation technology, which removes the diseased layer of cells from the esophagus and offers treatment of the disease before it has the chance to progress to cancer.
For more details look at http://app1.unmc.edu/publicaffairs/todaysite/sitefiles/today_full.cfm?match=5503
This looks like a very good progress in prevention of esophageal [...]

Here is a simple strategy on how to manage nighttime heartburn which occured every day for quite some time.
Option 1: Use PPIs – if it works you’re done. Most people stay with this option until it stops working (I have no idea why – but I heard from lots of people that PPIs stop for [...]

1) Immediate pain: starts right after consumption of acidic food. It is caused by acidic substances from food irritating esophagus.
2) After meal pain: starts after heavy meal when there is too much food in the stomach and stomach acid refluxes back to the esophagus.
3) Alcohol/spicy or bitter food related delayed pain: starts several hours after [...]

After series of experiments I discovered that fresh onion and garlic are guaranteed heartburn/stomach pain triggers for me. Even though both of them are not acidic in nature they contain very bitter substances which irritate my stomach and cause hell lot of pain. This pain is different from the usual heartburn caused by acid but [...]