This category covers Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease or GERD for short. GERD is a severe form of acid reflux with the most common symptom being heartburn.
A low histamine diet helps a specific minority of reflux sufferers — not everyone. If your symptoms track neatly with big meals, late eating and obvious acid triggers, histamine is almost certainly not your problem. But if your throat flares after aged cheese, leftovers, red wine or a bowl …
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Cimetidine — sold as Tagamet, and as Tagamet HB over the counter — was the first H2 blocker ever made, and the first drug in history to earn a billion dollars a year. It still works, it’s still on pharmacy shelves, and no, it has not been banned. The …
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Dexlansoprazole — sold as Dexilant, and previously as Kapidex — is a proton pump inhibitor, the same class as omeprazole, lansoprazole and esomeprazole. What makes it different is the capsule, not the drug: it uses a dual delayed-release design that dispenses the medication in two separate waves rather than …
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It’s one of the most common things readers tell me: “My acid reflux almost disappears when I’m abroad — why?” It’s a real pattern, and it isn’t in your head. But there’s no single magic in the water. What changes when you travel is a whole cluster of things …
If you want to find out what actually sets off your reflux, a 30-day symptom diary is the single most useful thing you can do — more useful, honestly, than any generic “foods to avoid” list. Here’s the method in one line: for 30 days, log what you eat …
The short version: long-term proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) — omeprazole, lansoprazole, esomeprazole and the rest — can lower your levels of five nutrients in particular: vitamin B12, magnesium, iron, calcium and zinc. They do it through one shared mechanism — by suppressing stomach acid, which your gut needs to …