Lifestyle changes, while no cure, may reduce the severity of symptoms of acid reflux.
My chicken burrito opened the acid reflux gates and kept me up all night.
Chronic acid reflux can damage the esophagus and in rare cases can cause precancerous changes.
As head of sales his primary mission was to launch Prevacid, a new drug for acid reflux.
The bacteria could actually be a cause of GERD, and acid reflux actually follows the bacterial change.
When Beth Anderson organized a meeting of other parents of babies with acid reflux in Washington, D.
When medications aren't enough to control the unpleasant symptoms of heartburn and acid reflux, surgery is sometimes necessary.
Five-year-old Daniel Harrison has a fear of consuming food after he suffered from acid reflux as a baby.
This painful little reaction is known as acid reflux, and it can be described as comparable to regurgitating molten oatmeal.
Besides beating tooth decay, independent research finds that gum can aid in reducing the symptoms of acid reflux disease.
Surgery to fix the faulty valve that causes acid reflux has long been the treatment of last resort for severe heartburn.
Another possibility is that they get flushed up by the acid reflux.
Aside from the industry-funded findings, there is solid evidence that gum chewing brings big benefits in dental health and acid reflux disease.
The goal is to tighten up or otherwise improve the faulty valve, called the esophageal sphincter, that lets acid reflux back into the esophagus.
Hands shoot up and the testimonials begin: Antioxidant-loaded XanGo calms acid reflux, cures migraines, chases away brown spots on the skin of someone's mother.
Daniel's refusal to eat or drink came after he suffered from acid reflux as a baby and now has a fear of consuming food.
Adding components used in some acid reflux remedies is one option, as these appear to provide a barrier which slows the rate of digestion down.
Instead, the overall tab rose because more and more people were diagnosed with a disease such as acid reflux, not because the treatment got pricier.
Over time, if untreated, acid reflux leads to inflammation (esophagitis) and difficulty in swallowing that can cause a partial closing of the lower esophagus (stricture).
Dr. Russell says she feels comfortable prescribing oral bisphosphonates to patients with acid reflux, although she generally switches to an intravenous version if their reflux worsens.
Dido spent the next 18 months going through the same things as every other parent - sleepless nights, acid reflux, and a thorough grounding in CBeebies.
He rates the stock "underperform, " although he does see strength in some of Wyeth's drugs, including Effexor for depression, Protonix for acid reflux, and pneumonia vaccine Prevnar.
Frequent heartburn or acid reflux are symptoms of a condition called GERD, or gastroesophageal reflux disease, which occurs when a sphincter muscle in the lower esophagus stops working properly.
Oral bisphosphonates -- which include drugs such as Fosamax and Boniva -- can upset the stomach and cause acid reflux, although it helps to take the medication as directed.
Doctors can sometimes see the cancer coming years earlier when acid reflux causes cells in the esophagus to mutate to become more like stomach tissue, a condition called Barrett's esophagus.
For instance, AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people ) is fighting a massive court battle to keep generic drugmakers from copying its acid reflux drug, Prilosec.
But Beachy theorized it is needed to make repairs in parts of the body that undergo constant regeneration, as in chronic acid reflux, where Sonic hedgehog works overtime to reline the throat.
Yet after losing weight, she stopped snoring, went off her asthma medication, felt less pain in her knee while walking and threw out the acid reflux medication she used to take before bed.
The patent on Prilosec, a stomach acid reflux drug made by London-based AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people), expires in April 2001, although it will likely be extended six months.
To investigate whether acid reflux is involved at all, doctors can do a 24-hour pH test, inserting an acid-sensitive probe through the patient's nose into the esophagus, where it records any episodes of reflux.
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