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 FODMAP diet can genuinely help acid reflux — but only for a specific group of people, and not for the reason most articles claim. It doesn’t lower the acidity of your food. It reduces the amount of gas fermenting in your gut, and gas pressure is one …
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Reflux after a gastric sleeve is common, it’s anatomical rather than dietary, and it’s the single biggest long-term trade-off of the operation. The numbers are clear. Across 46 studies covering 10,718 patients, de novo reflux — new reflux in people who didn’t have it before — occurred in 23%. …
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Reflux after gallbladder removal is real, common enough to be worth taking seriously, and almost universally explained the wrong way. The standard account is bile reflux: without a gallbladder, bile drips continuously into the duodenum instead of arriving in timed boluses, so it washes back into the stomach and …
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Yes — heartburn and indigestion are among the most commonly reported complaints on prednisone. But the risk is more nuanced than the warnings suggest, and knowing the actual numbers changes what you should worry about. In a meta-analysis of 159 randomised double-blind trials covering 33,253 participants, corticosteroids raised the …
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Some can — but the evidence is far more selective than most articles on this suggest, and the honest answer is more interesting than a list of culprits. The theory is sound. Antidepressants with anticholinergic properties relax the lower oesophageal sphincter, slow the stomach’s emptying and reduce saliva production …
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Yes. Ibuprofen can cause reflux and make existing reflux worse, and it’s one of the more common overlooked triggers I come across. In a survey of nearly 7,000 adults, reflux symptoms were significantly more common among NSAID users than non-users, and NSAID use came out as an independent predictor …
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