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<\/a>According to WebMD<\/a>, doctors typically recommend lifestyle and dietary changes to prevent GERD from flaring up. Foods like chocolate, peppermint, fatty foods, coffee, alcoholic beverages, citrus fruits and juices, tomato products, and pepper are known to irritate the situation and should be avoided.<\/p>\n There are certain medications that can treat GERD, they are known as proton pump inhibitors. Medications like Prilosec and Nexium are often prescribed by doctors to treat chronic cases.<\/p>\n In rare cases, surgery is needed to fix the problem; however, some reports shows surgery and medications offer the same benefits.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was no real difference between the prescription drugs and surgical approaches in terms of their overall ability to ease GERD,\u201d said researcher Dr. Jean-Paul Galmiche, a professor of gastroenterology in the College of Medicine at Nantes University in France.\u00a0 \u201cThese results were not expected.\u201d About Nexium<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the most commonly prescribed medications to treat GERD is Nexium<\/a>. This medication, which is available through Edrugstore.com<\/a>, comes as a delayed-release capsule that is taken once or twice a day, depeding on a doctor\u2019s instructions. It\u2019s typically taken about an hour before a meal to not only prevent the flow of acid from the stomach, but to limit the amount of acid the stomach makes to begin with.<\/p>\n Side effects of Nexium:<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" GERD is a digestive disorder that causes discomfort for thousands of Americans. In normal digestion there is a \u201cgate\u201d called the lower esophageal sphincter, which opens to allow food into the stomach and closes when food isn\u2019t passing through. For those with GERD, this \u201cgate\u201d is broken and it allows acid to travel from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2049,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_autoblog_aioseo_focus_keyphrase":"","_autoblog_aioseo_title":"","_autoblog_aioseo_description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-acid-reflux"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t
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