Acid Reflux

I would like some suggestion's on what I could drink ?

[DeeA]

Licorice root tea will help with the acid reflux, and water lots of it. Anything decaffinated some of the flavor icetea mixes or othe drink mixes that are decafe, but you have to keep searching until you find one that works for you, in the taste department.

[brooke]

Hi: I have been on alot of different meds for reflex and gerd. Does anyone know if protonix is a good med. I have a hard time swallowing pills so my doctor told me I should try this. I never heard of it. I suffer from regurgitation every day. I have had this since 1988. Is protonix better than prevacid.

[DeeA]

I personally have not taken this PPI. I have taken Prevacid, Prilosec, Nexium and Aciphex, along with H2 inhibitors; zantac, pepcid and tagament. I would assume it works just like the other PPI's. I had to play with them before actually getting one that works I now use Aciphex and have had great success with it. Protonix is one of the new and improved PPI's. This can be given IV as well as oral.
What it does is it suppresses the final step in gastric acid production by forming a covalent bond to two sites of the (H+, K+)-ATPase enzyme system at the secretory surface of the gastric parietal cell. This effect is dose-related and leads to the inhibition of both basal and stimulated gastric acid secretion irrespective of the stimulus. The binding to the (H+, K+)-ATPase results in a duration of antisecretory effect that persists longer than 24 hours.

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Pronunciation: pan TOE prah zole
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[brooke]

Thankyou Dee A for your response. I have been on alot of meds in the past. (Zantac, Pepcid, Tagament, Reglan, Prevacid, Prilosec, Aciphex, Propulsid(till it was taken off the market) and Reglan.
I still had problems (mostly regurgitation). I do not vomit cause it is undigusted food. Sometimes I get it to come back up 14 hours after I eat. If i eat dry cereal with out liquid I can keep it down, but once I drink a little liquid I start regurgitating.Also If I sit down after I eat I am o.k. but once I get up and walk I start regurgitating.  Why is this. I have been to many doctors. One of my doctors told me (no big deal to regurgite cause cows do it) My husband was very upset so I changed Doctors. I have had this since 1988. Will protnix stop
the regurgitation. Aciphex stopped my heartburn. But my insurance only will pay 50% and it cost me 100.00 a month so I stopped taking it. But my insurance will pay for protonix (10.00 co-pay) so I am thinking about trying that. My doctor gave me some samples but I have not taken them yet. I went to the book store and can not find any info on it. The liver thing bothers me. I do not know what to do. Thankyou  for the information.  Hope to hear from you soon

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