Today I am frustrated. Frustrated that Ella is having a flare up... Even more frustrated by the lack of understanding and plain ignorance we have recently encountered. As I took a minute for my own little "pitty party" I discovered that I was not even close to being alone in this problem.
After getting quite a bit of feedback and e-mails... Read more
If you deal with acid reflux and are being treated with a PPI you may also be well aware of the problem of acid breakthrough. It is quite common and has been noted that as many as half of patients on a PPI therapy will have acid breakthrough at some point. Most find their breakthrough pain to be in the evening or at bedtime (1).
Should... Read more
A recent article in the NY Times addressed the link between the use of PPI's and pneumonia. The study, which was published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, indicated that those on PPI medications had 30% greater the risk of developing hospital acquired pneumonias than the group not taking PPI's (1). The study showed... Read more
This is the letter my girls would have written to me before they were born to explain their GERD. I have seen other parents write something similar. I think it shows everyone going through the trials of a "reflux baby" exactly how hard it can be. I hope to those of you in the middle of it that it gives you some... Read more
Last Month we discussed several surgical treatment options for GERD. This month I will discuss two more new procedures which have been mentioned in recent medical articles. They are the Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication and the SRS endoscopic stapling system.
The Transoral Incisionless Fundoplication was approved by the FDA to be used with... Read more
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