http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com Remedies, treatments and cures for GERD, acid reflux and heartburn Fri, 10 Oct 2008 12:43:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Difficulty and pain when swallowing. Sore throat. Coughing. Wheezing. Vocal-cord inflammation. And, of course, the burning sensation in the chest known as heartburn. Sounds like you need an acid reflux treatment. If you are one of the more than 60 million people in the United States who suffer from acid reflux ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/acid-reflux-treatments.html With all these drugs to choose from, how do doctors decide which is the right acid reflux treatment for you? This is where the 'guidelines' from NICE (the National Institute for Clinical Excellence) are so helpful. NICE recommends either a 'step up' or a 'step down' approach, depending on the severity ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/acid-reflux-treatment.html One form of acid reflux remedy that you are probably already aware of, but may not understand fully how they work are acid suppressant drugs. These drugs act on the acid-producing mechanisms within the stomach wall, so that they greatly reduce the amount of acid inside the stomach. This is ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/acid-reflux-remedy-acid-suppressant-drugs.html Happily, drugs do work as a cure for acid reflux and GERD. There are five groups of different acid reflux treatments listed in order of efficacy. GERD and acid reflux treatments: Antacids and alginates. H2 receptor antagonists (such as ranitidine and cimetidine). 'As needed' doses of proton pump inhibitors (such as omeprazole and lansoprazole), Maintenance ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/a-cure-for-acid-reflux-and-gerd.html According to the many studies on acid refluc disease and GERD, more than 80 per cent of sufferers smoke, many of them heavily. That in itself makes a point - as fewer than 30 per cent of those in most developed countries now smoke, there must be a strong link ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/acid-reflux-disease-gerd-and-smoking.html There are several natural treatments for acid reflux disease, GERD and heartburn that are also very simple and can provide a long term solution to the condition. Here's some of the more effective ones: Losing weight If you can exercise easily without bringing on a cough or wheezing, do so. The best ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/natural-treatments-for-acid-reflux-disease.html The first priority the doctor has in finding a suitable acid reflux treatment (or GERD treatment) is to reassure you that you have every chance that the symptoms will ease and even disappear. You, though, have your part to play in your own treatment by changing your lifestyle, and your ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/natural-acid-reflux-treatments-and-remedies.html There are many pieces to our lifestyle that could be listed under GERD and acid reflux causes,  and the good news is that most of them can be easily managed to help reduce or even eliminate completely your acid reflux symptoms. Alcohol I'm sorry to sound a killjoy, but if you have ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/gerd-and-acid-reflux-causes.html I get asked a lot about what foods to eat and should I be following some kind of acid reflux diet to help ease my symptoms. The short answer is that it doesn't really matter, within reason, what food you eat – there isn't really a "one size fits all" ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/acid-reflux-diet.html So what causes acid reflux and GERD? There are many different GERD and acid reflux causes, but one of the biggest (if not the main cause) is smoking. If you smoke, you will make your GERD worse, whether or not you develop respiratory symptoms. This is so important to understand ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/top-acid-reflux-causes-smoking.html In this introduction to acid reflux and GERD, here I want to quickly explain what the sphincter is and it's role in helping deal with GERD and acid reflux symptoms. At the cardia, just where the esophagus becomes the stomach, there is a ring of muscle around it, within its wall. ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/understanding-acid-reflux-and-gerd-the-sphincter.html Here we'll quickly look at the cardia and how it can impact symptoms of acid reflux and GERD. The last 5 centimeters or so of the esophagus lie under the diaphragm in the abdomen. The esophagus meets the stomach at its upper right-hand surface, not quite at the top. If the ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/understanding-acid-reflux-and-gerd-the-cardia.html To better understand why you have GERD or acid reflux, and what you can do to cure it, we need to look at the role of your esophagu to help give us some clues for finding effective treatments and remedies and hopefully get rid of those acid reflux symptoms once ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/gerd-acid-reflux-and-your-esophagus.html To understand why you have GERD you need to know about the normal workings of the esophagus, diaphragm and stomach. The first thing to understand is the action of normal swallowing. The only part of swallowing that we are normally conscious of happens at the back of the tongue and ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/gerd-understanding-why-you-have-it.html GERD stands for Gastro-Esophageal Reflux Disease (in the UK it is called GORD because the Brits include an 'o' at the start of oesophageal - 'oesophagus'). In plain speak, GERD is the cause of heartburn and acid reflux – a symptom that almost everyone has had at some time in ... http://www.acidrefluxgerdcures.com/what-is-gerd-and-acid-reflux.html