But the procedure didn't significantly decrease acid levels or medication use, prompting some doctors to theorize that Stretta is destroying nerve endings without fixing reflux at all.
In December 1977 Donald Woods, a journalist and anti-apartheid activist, received a package containing children's T-shirts laced with acid: his young daughter was badly burned.
Acid-suppressing medication doesn't help, but low-dose tricyclic antidepressants seem to modulate the pain in some patients.
When you have a lot of excess fat, it generates so much free fatty acid, the liver can't handle it, so it stores it.
When medications aren't enough to control the unpleasant symptoms of heartburn and acid reflux, surgery is sometimes necessary.
While Blind Pilot might not be lo-fi enough to be considered acid-folk, sonically you can't help but notice nods to Jeff Mangum and company.
"It's not as aggressive a procedure" as traditional surgery but it isn't as effective based on patient satisfaction and elimination of acid in the esophagus, says Hiran C.
If acid secretions are normal, or if they don't correlate with the patient's symptoms, it is a strong clue that the heartburn has another cause.
Dr. Clarke says he found that about one-third of his patients with heartburn didn't get better on proton-pump inhibitors, or have evidence of acid reflux, but in virtually every case, they had severe stress in their lives.
In five years the stomach acid would eat through her tooth enamel, if she didn't drop dead first.
Some may have symptoms that haven't produced damage yet, and in some cases, the damage in the esophagus may have been healed by the acid-blocking medication, but still, the heartburn pain persists.
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