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Heartburn Medication can WORSEN Your Acid Reflux

By: Jeff Martin


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Medication for Heartburn Does Not Work Over Time. Get the Truth on Heartburn Drugs from an Ex -Heartburn Victim Who Went Through All of Them.

Classical treatments are often used for alleviation by millions of people enduring the pain and discomfort of symptoms of gastro esophageal disease, the most frequent of which is by all accounts heartburn. A massive seller at the moment, one of these medications for heartburn, Nexium, even became the number three worldwide for drug sales, clocking up over $5.7 billion in 2005

1. The upward trend in the number of GERD (Acid Reflux) patients in the western world is set to continue. There are approximately 25 million acid reflux victims with recurrent heartburn in 2006 alone in America. 2. Drugs for GERD are backed by huge marketing resources, publicity campaigns and by doctors prescribing them to patients. 3. Consumers now obtain such drugs with ease, buying them over the counter where a prescription was required before. About ten years previously, the Food and Drug Administration gave its sign-off for over the counter commerce of Pepcid AC, Tagamet HB, Zantac 75 and a number of other medicaments also came of the prescription-only list.

Before passing any final judgment on the subject, let's quickly go over the nature of acid reflux disease and heartburn, its most frequent external symptom. With the rising popularity of classical heartburn treatment, the big question when using such remedies is whether such drugs have the desired effects when it comes to eradicating the root causes of this medical problem and if the alleviation is better than the potential secondary effects.

Another factor that encouraging conditions for GERD is when the esophagus fails to evacuate gastric juices. In physiological terms, GERD is the after effect of the esophagus having excessively high exposure to stomach juices. This problem comes about because of a weakened LES or lower esophageal sphincter. The LES muscle is a circular valve separating the esophagus from the stomach. In cases of acid reflux disease, the LES does not close correctly, and stomach contents moves back up into the esophagus, giving symptoms of heartburn.

As well as those local reasons for acid reflux, there are also inherited characteristics (not under our control) and other internal factors and co-factors that create the environment contributing to acid reflux. These internal factors must be treated otherwise there is no solution in the long term for this medical complaint.

Any GERD medicament will fall into one of four categories:

1. Antacids (the prime example is Alka-Seltzer). By the neutralization of acid in the esophagus, antacids bring relief for a few hours. Upon taking the antacid, the neutralization of the stomach acid starts at once, to prevent further esophageal corrosion. 2. Alginates relieve symptoms by "wrapping up" stomach contents to decrease problems of reflux. 3. H2-receptor antagonists such as HB, Zantac 75 and Pepcid AC, actually stop the gastric system and the stomach from producing acid, preventing the stomach cells from leaking acid. If relief is to be effected, patients must use H2-receptor antagonists ahead of time and any heartburn. 4. Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI) such as Nexium, which stop the gastric cells "proton pump" from functioning in order to stop acid being created.

Serious side effects may occur in treatments for heartburn that use such medicaments. In the first place, they may cause headaches, diarrhea and in some cases osteoporosis. Following that, their long-term impact is limited and the chance of physical long-term dependency correspondingly greater. Finally, turning to medication as the only way to treat heartburn is a poor approach, which works on the symptoms but ignores the root cause of GERD. Ignoring the causes like this can over time worsen your condition and even cause serious complications medically.

Using a holistic plan, with the use of particular herbal and vitamin additions, and by adhering to a complete set of dietary principles, eliminating toxins and using Candida control protocols, your medical problem can receive a natural and lasting cure. Did you hear that your discomforting and painful heartburn symptoms of GERD could be eliminated in a lasting and holistic way without the use of medication for heartburn?

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Jeff Martin is a certified nutritionist and author of the #1 best-selling e-book, Heartburn No More . To Learn More About Heartburn Medication Visit: Heartburn Medication



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