Alternative Medicine Offers Relief To GERD Sufferers
While conventional medicine provides a wide variety of remedies for the symptoms associated with GERD, including medication and surgical options, these choices aren't for everyone. For some the problem...
View ArticleGERD and Pregnancy
While GERD is often associated with middle-aged or older people, there's actually one demographic group that experiences the illness in even greater numbers than these two groups. Nearly 80 percent of...
View ArticleSurgical Options Offer Hope For GERD Patients
While gastrointestinal reflux disease can be treated by a number of lifestyle and dietary changes, and also a plethora of medications. Sometimes these treatments aren't enough to treat the painful...
View ArticleStretta Procedure: New Treatment Option for GERD
Gastrointestinal reflux disease has a number of treatment options, including lifestyle and behavior modification, surgical treatments and medication. There's a new form of treatment that's offering yet...
View ArticleMythbusting GERD
Common ailments such as GERD often generate a plethora of old wives tales and home remedies that are ineffective. Myth-busting is an important part of medical knowledge dissemination, because it...
View ArticleLower Esophageal Sphincter 101
While much is said about the symptoms of gastrointestinal reflux disease and its uncomfortable symptoms, the underlying cause of the illness, a malfunction or weakening of the lower esophageal...
View ArticleFinding The Right Medication
Millions of Americans are coping with gastrointestinal reflux disease by taking medication that helps alleviate the symptoms of this potentially debilhitating illness. There's a wide variety of...
View ArticleEsophageal Cancer and GERD
Esophageal cancer is one of the most rapidly growing types of cancer in the world, in terms of cases, and is also one of the most deadly, with small survival rates. Gastrointestinal reflux disease can...
View ArticleRecognizing The Symptoms of GERD
Gastrointestinal reflux disease, or GERD, is an illness of the upper GI tract that effects about 60 ,million Americans. Of these millions of people suffering the ill effects of this disease, many are...
View ArticlePositional Therapy Offers Treatment Alternative
Gastrointestinal reflux disease affects millions of Americans daily, but luckily there are a variety of treatments available to help alleviate the illness or fix its underlying cause. These treatments...
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