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Severe Acid Reflux/Gerd help
My best friend has severe acid reflux. She has it as a result of an incident that happened about 5 or 6 years ago that I do not know all of the details for, but I think it resulted in holes starting to form in her stomach? I am not completely sure, regardless she has severe acid reflux as a result that started really affecting her close to 3 years ago.
It os bad enough that if she throws up and if she throws up it will burn any skin it touches and leave blisters that can last anywhere from a couple days to a couple weeks.
It also causes her severe daily pain. She broke her foot and walked on it for hours without shedding a single tear, but her GERD will have her in tears if she doesn't have her medicine in time.
She is prescribed Rititidine and Omeprozal which helps immensely(at least most of the time enough that she won't throw up or cry from pain) but still isn't fully effective and at times is just not enough.
Anyway, I was wondering if any of you could recommend anything at all that could help her. It causes her a lot of pain and I feel horrible watching her go through it and her doctors are doing very little besides give her more meds.
If there is anything you know that may help severe Acid reflux like this please let me know.
Thank you.
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My husband gets it bad at times too. What has helped since he doesn't require medication, is changing his diet. Less acidic foods. That would mean knowing what is more Alkaline in foods. So I am putting link to a list of both.
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I am sure she doesn't want to get hooked on Tums for cutting acid or it doesn't work for her. So the only way to have less acid then is by watching what you eat.
Along with that, taking vitamins,but also taking probiotics can help gut health. You may think its just for the intestines but the digesting starts in the stomach before moving on and probiotics work well for that. I would recommend her buying a probiotic supplement capsule from health food section of local stores or from a supplement store. Then add Kefir to your diet. It's like a drinkable yogurt but Kefir is even better than any kind of yogurt. Kefir is also healthier for your gut, as it contains more strains of beneficial bacteria than yogurt—many times more, in fact. ... The bacteria in the pill form is less protected, and more likely to be inactive by the time it reaches your intestines so it really depends on how it was made, some require refrigeration and I am guessing those probiotic pills may be more effective. When ever I start having any kind of acidic or intestinal issues I guzzle Kefir down all day long. I regulary have some a couple days a week anyways. Probably one of the best things a person can add to their diet. I don't know of anything else other than not eating too late in the day. I understand that we are older and with age people can tend to have issues if eating later but according to dieticians, it is not recommended to eat late. From 8pm on, we will have problems if we eat. We now choose to eat dinner at 4 or 5,530. The latest we will eat is about 630. If we don't, we both feel acid reflux as soon as we lay down. The bodies organs are on a schedule as far as doing the jobs they are meant to do and there are times the organs are to be more at a rest state and our body's internal clock is what makes the organs do their jobs a certain time. For example, before gall bladder removal, I would feel the painful attacks mostly wee hours of the morning because that is when the gallbladder is timed to do its work. So she may also want to change her eating schedule time wise to see if that helps. There are also some things I can eat early in day but if I eat late in day, it causes stomach pains or acid. So she will have to experiment with things like this because foods and probiotics shouldn't interfere with any of her medications, but she can ask her doctor or pharmacist to be sure.
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