Can acupuncture actually help acid reflux? The honest answer is a qualified yes: for some people it does, the mechanism is plausible, and there are real trials behind it — but the evidence is thinner and shakier than acupuncture clinics tend to admit. The most interesting finding is that …
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The fundoplication recovery diet moves through four stages over roughly six weeks: clear liquids for the first day or two, full liquids for the rest of week one, purees and very soft foods for weeks two and three, then a gradual return to normal food from around week four …
Barrett’s oesophagus ablation is a procedure that deliberately destroys the abnormal cells lining your lower oesophagus so healthy tissue can grow back in their place. It’s done through an endoscope, as a day case, and there are two main ways of doing it: radiofrequency ablation (RFA), which burns the …
The RefluxStop device is a small silicone implant that treats acid reflux without wrapping, squeezing or narrowing your oesophagus. A surgeon places it in a pouch made from the wall of your stomach, just under the diaphragm, where it holds the lower oesophageal sphincter back down in the abdomen …
Lansoprazole 30 mg and omeprazole 20 mg are, for practical purposes, interchangeable. A meta-analysis of six randomised double-blind trials put 8-week healing rates for erosive oesophagitis at 88.7% for lansoprazole and 87.0% for omeprazole — a difference whose confidence interval comfortably included zero. If someone has switched you from one to …
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Pantoprazole (Protonix) is a proton pump inhibitor, and the standard adult dose for reflux is 40 mg once daily — taken 30 to 60 minutes before your first meal of the day, not with it and not after. That timing detail is not a nicety. It’s the single most common …
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