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Dietary Advice for Acid Reflux
If the reflex is occasional, then it's not a cause for concern. But if you are bothered by heartburn almost on a daily basis, you need to take IMMEDIATE action. To start with, the following lifestyle changes can help: If the reflex is occasional, then it's not a cause for concern.
But if you are bothered by heartburn almost on a daily basis, you need to take IMMEDIATE action. To start with, the following lifestyle changes can help:
- Eat smaller, frequent meals; this helps prevent acid reflux. Eat 5-6 small meals instead of 2-3 big meals.
This ensures that the acid is contained in the stomach and very little gets a chance to come up in to your food pipe.
- Minimize consumption of foods which are fatty or fried, avoid alcohol, restrict chocolate, peppermint, garlic, onion, tomato-based foods, spicy foods, citrus foods, caffeine or nicotine which are notorious in triggering a reflux.
- Do not wear tight-fitting, body-clinging garments. Don't wear your waist belt too tight.
- Don't lie down immediately after a meal — Wait at least for a couple of hours.
- Quit smoking completely, NOW! – It may have been the culprit in increasing your stomach acidd
- Lose weightt Eat a healthy, balanced diett
- Do not sleep flat on the bedd Try and elevate your head to reverse the direction of the up-coming acidd
- Instead of sleeping on your back, sleep on your left-hand sidee
Chewing a gum may relieve some symptoms & prevent recurrent episodess
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