Acid Reflux Treatment For Those With Low Stomach Acid

Acid reflux treatments have ranged from risky and expensive surgical procedures, to traditional home indigestion remedies. Pharmaceutical drugs such as proton pump inhibitors are the most common treatment, but it is debatable as to how effective they are for long term healing. Many patients have been told that they need to take these drugs for many years or even for the rest of their life, only to find out recently that the long term side effects of these drugs include accelerated bone density loss, and osteoporosis. The most be effective, and yet the most inconvenient treatment for acid reflux is lifestyle modification, including temperance in diet, abstinence from alcohol, caffeine, tobacco, and regular exercise. The lifestyle modification approach is not aimed at treating the symptoms, but preventing them. Although the results are not immediate, they are long-lasting and beneficial to the overall health of the individual. But if lifestyle modification were an easy remedy to apply, we would have no addictions or obesity, and 90% of all illnesses would not exist. So there remains a need for remedies which are temporal in nature and which allow the person to get relief and live a normal life. Fortunately there are some natural remedies which can be employed in the place of prescription medication (but consult your doctor before giving up your meds). Many of these remedies require nothing more than a little knowledge and basic education. For example, it is not widely known that acid reflux in older people is more likely caused by low stomach acid rather than by excessive stomach acids. As we age, our digestive system, like the rest of our body, becomes impaired over the years to a greater or lesser degree. Our stomachs may no longer produce the amount of gastric digestive juices necessary to break down food in the stomach. The food may then over-accumulate in the stomach and backflow into the esophagus causing reflux. A natural remedy for this is to use nutritional supplements such as Betaine HCL to artificially supply the hydrochloric acid (HCL) normally produced by the stomach. Another option for this type of ailment is the use of Apple Cider Vinegar, which acts as a substitute for the body’s own natural hydrochloric acid. There are other natural indigestion remedies also for those who do suffer from excessive stomach acid. Many can be found at your local grocery store or health food store. Heat Rash Tags: indigestion remedies, low stomach acid This entry was posted on Thursday, June 16th, 2011 at 5:14 pm and is filed under Acid Reflux, Anti Aging, Health, Natural Cures. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.