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.
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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Ranitidine is gone and it isn’t coming back. On 1 April 2020 the FDA requested that every manufacturer withdraw all prescription and over-the-counter ranitidine from the US market immediately, after testing showed that levels of a probable carcinogen called NDMA rise inside the tablets over time — faster in …
Probably not — at least not for the reflux you’re actually dealing with. Pepto-Bismol can take the edge off a one-off bout of overindulgence heartburn, and there are two old randomised trials showing exactly that. But it isn’t an antacid, it doesn’t meaningfully neutralise stomach acid, it doesn’t coat …
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