I found your post Ichuan ” Is There A Cure for Acid Reflux?, Saturday. I’ve been searching and looking for more information about acid reflux disease diet. If you have acid reflux. Try lifestyle and dietary changes first. In one study, 44% of patien…

If you have acid reflux stay away from spicy foods! I found your post Manage Heartburn Without Drugs | Healthy and Green Living, Tuesday. I’ve been searching and looking for more information about medication for acid reflux….

You may want to be checked for gal stones in your gal bladder, sometimes acid reflux can be related to this or be mistaken for it. If the pain comes every time you eat something greasy or high in fat and it becomes so painful you feel like you’re abdomen is being torn up, You may have gal stones and should have your gal bladder removed. If it is not that, I would try taking prilosec. and changing your diet, and stay away from all greasy and high fat content foods.

i am so sorry. but i would consider looking into it on the web and even other doctors. i have 3 kids and i have never heard of acid reflux med for babies. and i would consider suing.

When my son was an infant (now 17), he had a problem with the flap on his stomach not being developed (he was a few weeks early) and he would spit up everything, this kid was a projectile vomiter. We just limped through it, and I gave him alot of water, which helped I think. He likes water to this day, and drinks alot of it. I have never heard of a Dr. giving an infant acid reflex medicine. I have had a bad case of acid reflex myself, that I took Nexum for, for a 6 month period. I found out later that the protein drink (slimfast) that I was drinking was causing it. I stopped the protein drink and the acid reflux went away.

Change your diet to alkaline, eat fresh papaya, take enzymes before you eat and after, lots of fresh water, start taking acidolphis caps several times a day and dont drink any alcohol or eat spicy anything…give your stomach a chance to heal. Eating candied ginger helps alot to ease the pain, and if you stay on a alkaline diet ( go to yahoo and type in alkaline diet to get several webpages with recipes and food guidelines) you will feel relief fast, I would get a juicer and cleanse with a juice fast. you will be well in no time at all…

You have a weird doctor. I have it, and when it happens, it feels like you are about to get sick, and it makes your throat burn. It gets worse if you lay down, and especially if you eat certain foods, like tomatoes.

all im going to say is go to your doctor and ask him to put her on nexium which will HELP!! then go to a gastrologist and have a gastroscopy that will definatly show her problem……very easy procedure…

How sad! My heart goes out to you and your family. I have heard of babies getting acid reflux which I believe is quite common. Yet I don’t believe it’s quite common for an infant to die from this. Was an autopsy performed on the child? Again, my deepest condolences.

Over time, the acid from the stomach can erode the esophagus. Eventually there could be a massive bleed out.

Acid reflux is nothing to mess with. Unfortunately, a lot of people just think they have bad indigestion and grab a tums. If you have bad heartburn on a regular basis, see a doctor.

The symptoms of acid reflux are primarily heartburn, regurgitation, and nausea
The main symptoms are persistent heartburn and acid regurgitation. Some people have GERD without heartburn. Instead, they experience pain in the chest, hoarseness in the morning, or trouble swallowing. You may feel like you have food stuck in your throat or like you are choking or your throat is tight. GERD can also cause a dry cough and bad breath.

i have acid reflux too i am using the purple pill nexum

Yes my son was on the meds and he is 8 now at the time he was only 2 weeks old he did well thank GOD.. i am so sorry about the loss that is so sad….

If stomach acid escapes the GI tract, into the lungs or abdominal cavity it can be fatal. With acid reflux, acid is escaping back into the esophagus, so it could be fatal if not treated, but you are right, if it got bad, you should go to the ER.

eat anything dry like crackers, or bread to neutralize the acid. i can feel your pain.

Try not drinking much liquid with your meals, they say that helps your food digest better because, the stomach acids don’t get watered down.If you have something to drink room temp water is the best, cold iced drinks inhibit stomach acid production. Also try for more raw vegetables with your meals to aid in the fiber content. Meat is hard to digest, try baked chicken with minimal seasoning. Caffiene & chocolate can really irritate too.

Foods To Avoid On The Acid Reflux Diet

Food Group Foods To Avoid
Fruit • Orange juice
• Lemon
• Lemonade
• Grapefruit juice
• Cranberry juice
• Tomato
Vegetables • Mashed potatoes
• French fries
• Onion, raw
Meat • Ground beef, chuck
• Marbled sirloin
• Chicken nuggets
• Buffalo wings
Dairy • Sour cream
• Milk shake
• Ice cream
• Cottage cheese, regular
Grains • Macaroni and cheese
• Spaghetti with sauce
Beverages • Liquor
• Wine
• Coffee, decaffeinated or regular
• Tea, decaffeinated or regular
Fats / Oils • Salad dressing, creamy
• Salad dressing, oil & vinegar
Sweets / Desserts • Butter cookie, high-fat
• Brownie
• Chocolate
• Doughnut
• Corn chips
• Potato chips, regular

I would also suggest making sure that you look at any other medications you are taking. Advil & Aleve for pain can be irritants. Eat several hours before you go to bed. Don’t snack right before bed. When sleeping, make sure that you are elevated by 2 pillows, so your not lying flat. Hope these suggestions help! You might also check with your Dr. to see if a possible change in your presciption med is needed. Good luck!!

ok, yes, I know babies with acid reflux. neither are on meds for it though. the parents have to hold them upright after they eat so they don’t spit it all up. I think you mean the baby was starved to death because a strangling has nothing to do with reflux.

Yes, the person probably suffered a lot and was probably on med but if a person continues to eat the acid and drink acid causing products then the esophagus can actually bleed through. A hole can turn into a bleeder, we have veins and arteries close to the esophagus, so it is possible. more people than you’d think have this complication. It’s usually someone that insists on eating and drinking as usual, doesn’t change and do as Dr. says and then it’s just too late. why see a Dr. if you don’t do what they say. A pill doesn’t cure anything.It may help some with symptoms and then the rest is up to the person.

don’t sound like acid reflux to me she would feel quizzy to her stomach and dry heave.

My nephew had it as a baby and he is fine now. Yes he took acid reflux medicine and it was okay. He did not have any problems with the meds.

sugar is metabolized by the hydrochloric acid in your stomach, as well as by various enzymes, so you want to reduce whatever causes your stomach to churn out more acid.

NUTRAMIGEN (from Enfamil). It is expensive, babyRus’s price is slightly cheaper; about $23 but you can buy online from babywuvinc.com for $20.

Talk with a health food store, there is so much hype on acid reflux, it is hard to really trust what you hear, do some research on your own, go the natural method because there are too many side affects with pills, and you have to what buy them for ever, they camouflage the cause and don’t get to the source of the problem and fix it. Depending on your child’s age and problem, the treatments will vary. Try on-line search engines by typing in acid reflux, natural cures and get some good solid information to read, then you can try and see what feels right and comfortable for you and your child, after all it is your life and your health, right?
Good luck. Sincerely, OneDreamCaster

I have a male yellow lab that eats anything and everything. At 8 months he ate a large piece of blanket. He had to have major surgery and took months to get back to normal, food wise. Once he was back eating regular dry food, he began puking when there was too long of a gap between feedings, because he had spent weeks on 3 tsps of a special bland wet food every 2 to 3 hours. I took him back to the vet, she gave him a prescription for a large white pill, not sure of the name, but was told that it was like tums for dogs, only that it works. She also gave me a script for pepcid (human medicine). Also she told me to change his food to something more natural (we now use Nutro products) and something designed for sensative stomachs. She also stated that if the dog wasn’t already eating from a raised dish (which he is), he should be changed to one. Those things have all worked for us. He hasn’t puked in months. Ask the vet about the white pills and whether pepcid would work…ya never know

idk…try grape juice, once or twice it would help me when i was little.

basically my understanding of not being able to swallow as explained to me was that when i lie down and sleep the acid is like flowing up towards my throat creating a very stiff and swollen feeling that i usually get. So i’m assuming that because of the irritation the acid is providing on your throat, it is swollen and therefore making it difficult to swallow?

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With the pain in the ears, I’m not sure. However, it DOES TAKE TIME, so hopefully she will stay with it. It takes awhile to help the scar in the esophagus.

Reflux most commonly occurs when the ring of muscle that joins the stomach to the esophagus does not function properly. This muscle, the lower esophageal sphincter, or LES, usually opens very briefly for swallowing or vomiting, and then closes again. But in reflux cases, the muscle stays relaxed and food and stomach acids can flow back into the esophagus.

If your esophagus gets ruptured or torn, you could actually bleed to death from it.

I have acid reflux & have never had problems like that. Most of the time I have heartburn or acid indigestion or burning in my throat & esophagus. I take Protonix for this. I don’t think antibiotics really help!