Heartburn and Acid Reflux Relief Blog

This summer I discovered a very tasty tea and also a way to naturally relief heartburn. This tea is brewed from marigold flowers.
I got an advice about this tea from a friend and it really made a difference for me.
There are multiple benefits of it:
1) It has no caffeine
2) It has anti-inflammatory, anti-septic properties
3) It [...]

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 [...]

If you ask people who take PPIs about its safety the answer you most probably will hear: it is totally safe.
Well it looks like it is safe unless you combine it with Plavix. Recent research study found that in patients who suffered heart attack and were prescribed PPIs (in case of study it was Prilosec) [...]

Here is some information on DGL studies from Astrid Pujari, M.D.”In terms of relevant studies, the two that I know of were published in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They were small, and didn’t meet the ideal criteria we now use for research studies. These scientists didn’t study heartburn specifically, but found that [...]

According to recent review released by the Food and Drug Administration patients who suffer from heartburn are not at increased risk for heart problems as a result of taking Prilosec or Nexium. The FDA and its Canadian counterpart began reviewing the drugs, used by tens of millions of people, in May.
The drug’s manufacturer, AstraZeneca [...]

To celebrate 1 year anniversary of Manage Your Heartburn I created an overview of “How I cured my Heartburn” in a form of a short article so every visitor of this site could read it in 5 minutes and get a good overview on how I did it. Check it out here

Wow! I started creating this site during November 2006. It was just a small experiment to see whether non-biased and non-business oriented information about heartburn is interesting to the users.
Well after 1 year this site proved to be useful to many people. I’m very happy to hear your positive comments about information available on this [...]