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Chronic Heartburn
You have that burning, bitterly foul taste in your mouth again. You feel cramped, bloated and feel as if you swallowed a bottle of Tabasco sauce. You wonder if inserting the garden hose into your mouth and turning it on might JUST might put out the burn inside. If this only happens a few times a year, you have regular heartburn. If this happens more than three times a week for two weeks, you may have chronic heartburn, called Gastro Esophageal Reflux Disease (GERD).
Other Symptoms
Not everyone gets the same symptoms of chronic heartburn. Here are a few more warning flags that indicate you have chronic heartburn:
Feeling as if something is always stuck in your throat when you absolutely know there isn t
Being woken up in the night with a burning sensation in the back of your throat or with a persistent cough
Pain in the chest (always a sign to call the doctor)
Persistent bad breath no matter what you do
A sudden chronic cough
You Really Need To See The Doctor
With the cost of healthcare these days, no one wants to visit the doctor even for check-ups. But chronic can t be ignored and successfully home-treated. It usually gets worse over time, and may give
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you ulcers. Now ulcers are expensive to treat. But chronic indigestion is a lot cheaper to successfully treat in comparison.
There are many excellent prescription drugs on the market for chronic heartburn. To help them work their best, though, you need to make a few lifestyle changes.
Don't Panic
You have chronic because of several ways you are mismanaging your life. You are not a bad person for having chronic heartburn. Think of chronic as a warning flag to help you get into healthier habits, rather than as a punishment for bad habits. Habits you can get into that will relieve your chronic are:
Wear looser clothing around your waist
Sit up for at least an hour after you eat or drink before going to bed
Exercise regularly, whether it s walking, yoga or doing more household cleaning chores. You can get a lot done and help your chronic heartburn.
Eat smaller meals, and eat more frequently when possible instead of just tucking into three heaping platefuls per day.
Avoid or reduce your intake of caffeinated and/or alcoholic beverages. Caffeine and alcohol, alone or together, will trigger your stomach to make pints of stomach acid it can t controp.
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Antifungal treatment helps some asthma patients
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People with severe asthma who are allergic to fungal organisms benefit substantially from treatment with the anti-fungal drug itraconazole, new research shows.
Childhood abuse linked to chronic fatigue syndrome
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - New research confirms that emotional and sexual abuse in childhood are important risk factors for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS).
Teens on MySpace often share risky information
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Many adolescent users of the social networking site MySpace include information in their profiles that could put their health in jeopardy in one way or another, new research published in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine shows.
Brain circuit disturbances may underlie bulimia
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Reduced activity in the part of the brain that helps a person exert appropriate self-control may contribute to the binge-purge syndrome bulimia nervosa, research published today suggests.
Prenatal test may raise birthmark risk
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A test performed in early pregnancy to check for genetic defects such as Down's syndrome in the fetus appears to be linked to increased chances that the baby will be born with a birthmark, or "infantile hemangioma," researchers report.
Efficacy of older pneumonia vaccine questioned
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The ability of standard pneumococcal vaccination to prevent pneumonia in adults, even those for whom the vaccine is currently recommended, is called into question by researchers from Switzerland and the UK in a report released Monday.
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A low-carbohydrate diet such as the familiar Atkins diet improves control of blood sugar levels in obese individuals with type 2 diabetes, researchers have shown.
Few people seek help before heart "events"
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In the months before a heart attack or episode of severe angina requiring emergency treatment, only a small percentage of people seek medical attention for precursor symptoms such as fatigue and shortness of breath, Canadian researchers report.
Pneumonia from health care contact often fatal
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The severity of illness and the mortality rate in people with pneumonia resulting from a recent outpatient contact with the health care system is higher than pneumonia acquired in the community setting, physicians in Italy report.
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