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What You Eat Can Affect the Severity of Your Acid Reflux

September 4th, 2009

If you are dealing with any type of acid reflux issue, there is the possibility of eliminating it entirely from your life. All you have to do is make some slight adjustments to the way you live your day to day life.

If you are willing to make some changes, odds are you will never have to suffer through the painful burning, or constantly have to pop antacid or prescription pills again.

Since so many people develop acid reflux problems right before going to bed at night, the most obvious change you need to make is to greatly curb your late night eating - or better yet - eliminate it all together.

If snacking after dinner has become one of your favorite pastimes, it’s very important to replace the food with something else, like a hobby. Otherwise you create an emotional void that will ultimately be filled with something - usually something bad for you!

Also, keep in mind that the specific things you eat are every bit as important as when you eat them. Most people have trouble with anything acid-based. Marinara sauce found in spaghetti and pizza is a primary example.

Orange juice is another.

Do you’re very best to avoid foods with those types of ingredients, including caffeine, late in the day or in the evening.

Finally, try to also avoid any kind of food that winds up creating even more acid in your stomach. Unfortunately, chocolate is one of these, along with pizza (again) and anything containing spicy ingredients like peppers.

With proper portion control, and paying attention to what you eat - especially late in the day - you can dramatically decrease your acid reflux episodes, and save yourself an immeasurable amount of grief.

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Sore Throat Set off by Acid Reflux

July 19th, 2008

Acid reflux refers to the condition in which the partially digested food containing digestive juices travels back into the esophagus from the mouth.

To describe the mechanical layout of this disease, our digestive system has a circular band of muscle called lower esophageal sphincter. This muscle splits the stomach from the esophagus. When the food enters the stomach, this muscle closes so as to prevent the partially digested materials from traveling back into the esophagus. But when the lower esophageal sphincter is rendered incompetent, the stomach contents are allowed to regurgitate or spit up.

The stomach contents that moves back to the esophagus contains digestive acids since they have undergone digestion in the stomach where digestive liquids are released to facilitate the digestion. Because of the acidic nature of the refluxed materials, inflammation develops in the lining of the throat; thus a sore throat is one of the most common symptoms of this condition.

Sore throat is usually associated with other symptoms, though sometimes it is uncommon, such as the occurrence of pus on the tonsil surface and drooling or frequent spitting. Moreover, a patient with sore throat may also experience difficulty in breathing caused by the narrowing of the air passage through the larynx or pharynx.
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