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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease And Treatment

Gastroesophageal reflux is a growing concern for a large number of people. Sufferers report symptoms including a burning or stinging sensation, as well as other pain or discomfort in the chest and / or stomach regions of the body.

Some people find relief in over the counter heartburn drugs and use them to alleviate symptoms as the need arises. Though there have been advances in common heartburn medicines and their effectiveness, it seems like the plethora of over the counter acid reflux drugs are barely able to keep up with increasing numbers of heartburn patients.

Most people I know are still looking for a heartburn medicine that will actually work effectively and on a consistent basis. I’ve heard many of them remark that a new acid reflux medication will work the first few times, but not very well after that. It seems that a viable solution for some it to cycle between a few different brands or types of medicine.

There are also a host of prescription acid reflux medications, as well as surgical treatment and endoscopic procedures to repair damaged tissues or structural abnormalities. While I’m sure there are cases where surgery or consistent medication would be the best course of action, I find it hard to believe that there is not another underlying cause of the heartburn epidemic.

Did people simply not suffer from heartburn as much in the past, or perhaps not as severely? It seems like if heartburn was as inherent to the human experience as every other television commercial portrays things to be, we would have read about it in historical literature. Maybe people haven’t always suffered from heartburn in the large numbers we see today.

Perhaps many chronic heartburn cases are related more closely to the poor quality of food that many of us eat and not that heartburn is just another condition of being human. But it’s more difficult to realize simple cause and effect relationships when the whole picture is clouded with a third element: treatment of symptoms.

When we treat symptoms of dis-ease with medications of any kind, we’re not allowing our bodies to heal and assist us in finding what it is that our body requires to heal, whether it be sleep, water or particular nutrients, the body will lead us to what it is that will set things right again. Symptoms are the body’s way of alerting us to an imbalance, and treating the symptoms only impede the body’s natural healing duties. Skip the Zantac and eat some carrots or an apple instead.

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