Gastric or gastroesophageal reflux is a common condition.
Throughout your life you may experience its symptoms occasionally.
This is generally triggered by bad habits, poor diet, and other factors.
When acid reflux becomes very frequent, it can be very uncomfortable.
Fortunately, there are ways to naturally treat gastric reflux.
There is no miraculous home remedy that will completely eliminate it from one day to the next, but rather a set of modifications that you can make to your life that will help you alleviate it naturally.
Under these lines we will explain some of the treatments most effective home remedies for gastric reflux.
1. Prepare a diet at home to control gastric reflux
You may think, “but I don’t know which foods are good and which are bad for reflux.”
And it’s true, you don’t know it, but your body will let you know.
The best way to know which foods to include and which foods to eliminate from your dietit is paying attention to your body, because it is very wise.
With the passing of time you will notice that the days you eat certain foodsheartburn and other symptoms increase or decrease.
Ideally, you should keep a kind of record where you write down what you ate each day and how you felt, to begin to find patterns and associate certain foods with an improvement or worsening of symptoms.
Thus, little by little, you will create your own diet at home to cure gastric reflux.
If you want to know where to start, you should know that the caféthe alcoholthe chocolatelos seasonings and the fried food These are foods that tend to worsen gastric reflux.
On the other hand, fiber-rich foods can help alleviate symptoms and end reflux (mira is fasting if you want to know the foods with fiber that you can introduce in your diet).
2. Adjust meal times
Eating at the right time is also essential to naturally reduce heartburn caused by reflux.
In general, the recommendation is not go long without consuming some foodeven if it is something light, you have to give it to the stomach to digest it.
Also, it is recommended to eat dinner as far away from bedtime as possible.
Well, studies have shown that eating dinner and then going to sleep within a few hours considerably increases the risk of suffering from gastroesophageal reflux.
3. Reduce the portions of each dish
Eating very large portions of food also often triggers heartburn.
Therefore, it is advisable to reduce the portions of each meal of the day a little.
And, in any case, to compensate, eat more meals a day.
That is, instead of eating 3 main dishes, eat 5 or 6 dishes with smaller portions.
In the same way, it is also advisable to eat slowly; Chewing food well is giving your stomach a hand, and it will surely thank you by eliminating acidity.
4. Try herbal teas
Some teas might help you calm gastric reflux.
The following is a list of some of the test what might you take:
- has to chamomile.
- fruit teas.
- Fennel tea
- green tea
Add some to your diet and see how you feel followingwards to see if it’s really helping or not.
Combine it with the other tips in this article to ensure better results.
Nevertheless, with these tips you will NOT eliminate all the symptoms of your reflux.
What you should do is ELIMINATE THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM.
In «Opinion and Health» we recommend that you look at Laura’s story and how might she cure forever the reflux that did not let her live.
5. Chew sugarless gum
Chewing gum seems to have positive effects once morest gastroesophageal reflux, mainly because it stimulates swallowing and saliva production, which helps to neutralize some of the stomach acids that cause that sour feeling.
However, it is important to emphasize that it must be without sugar.
Well, if it has sugar, it will not have the expected effect, rather might backfire.
Start by chewing some sugarless gum following lunch, and if you feel relief in the followingnoon, start following every meal for a few days to completely eliminate discomfort.
6. Do not wear tight clothing
It might seem irrelevant, but it is not.
Tight clothing can generate physical force (compression) that leads to increased gastric reflux and worsens the feeling of heartburn, nausea, etc.
The recommended thing then is to wear comfortable clothes, not necessarily excessively baggy, but that do not squeeze you in the abdomen.
7. Change your sleeping position
Acid reflux is also affected by physics, specifically gravity.
When we sleep, we usually do it on our back, stomach or side. But we always tend to sleep completely horizontal.
Lying completely flat in bed can help more acid move from your stomach up into your esophagus.
For this reason, it is recommended to find a way to sleep with the upper part of the body inclined, even at a small angle, so that by gravity it is more difficult for the acid to rise.
For this you can place some studs on top of the bed, to sleep in a less horizontal position. Pillows are useless, because they only incline your neck; you must incline your entire trunk.
Similarly, sleeping lying on the right side also makes reflux worse.
The ideal is do it on the left side so that, by gravity, the acid does not leave the stomach into the esophagus; this is because the stomach is below and to the left of the esophagus.
Also, as we mentioned above, it is not good to go to sleep shortly following eating.
In fact, it is not advisable to lie down either. Therefore, if you usually lie in bed for a while following lunch, I am sorry to tell you that you should stop doing it to avoid gastroesophageal reflux.
8. Meditate, reduce stress
The stress It is a triggering factor for gastroesophageal reflux.
For this reason, you should apply all kinds of relaxation techniques, such as meditation, yoga, therapy, etc., to avoid situations in your day to day stressing you out and ending up triggering heartburn.
9. Quit smoking
If you didn’t have enough reasons to quit smoking, here’s one more.
Tobacco is strongly associated with the development of gastric reflux.
So if you smoke and have reflux, you’ll need to quit right away if you want to get better.
Nevertheless, These tips alone are not enough to cure your reflux.
What you should do is ELIMINATE THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM.
That is why in «Opinion and Health» we recommend that you look at Laura’s story and how might cure forever the reflux that did not let her live.
Since Opinion and Health We wish you much success in your recovery!
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Written by Maria Teresa Gutierrez, a doctor specializing in the digestive system and nutrition. She currently practices as a doctor at the Catalan Health Institute and is a Doctor of Medicine from the University of Salamanca.
