Medicines For Acid Reflux

Alcohol lovers often love to match their drink with spicy dishes and greasy and fatty foods. The perfect combination makes the perfect drink for the taste buds. Unfortunately, this is bad for the esophagus and stomach. Alcohol, spicy foods and foods and fatty acids causes acid reflux or reflux disease, also known as gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Other causes of acid reflux are pregnancy, genetic influence, the presence of infection in the gastrointestinal tract, and not anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs).

Digestive system of the body consists of the following: oral cavity, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine and anus. The main function of the gastro-intestinal tract is to absorb, digest food particles, digestive juices and undigested materials which are of course remove the excrement.

Acid reflux affects the stomach and esophagus. This occurs when fluid back from the stomach, pepsin, an irritating substance produced by the principal cells in the esophagus containing runs through the heart sphincter. The heart is the opening of the sphincter of the esophagus into the stomach. Its function is to prevent reflux of the substances in the stomach because these substances cause irritation of the esophagus and ulcers. When the heart is not sphincter after receiving food from the esophagus, acid reflux occurs close.

Acid reflux is a chronic disease. Once a person is suffering from this disease, a test for a long life. Lesions of the esophagus is a chronic disease. Even if the esophagus is healed finished with the treatment and the injury in most patients within a few months back. Triggered by the treatment of this disease, it must be continued during the rule indefinitely.

Normally, liquid reflux in the stomach occurs in healthy people. But people with acid reflux or GERD, has more acid in the liquid. This can occur by genetic influences are caused mainly produce a greater number of parietal cells in the pepsin in the stomach.

The body has mechanisms to protect against the harmful effects of acid reflux. Most reflux occurs during the day, when individuals are upright. In this position, the response is more fluid flow into the stomach by gravity. Moreover, while people are awake, they continually swallow, regardless of whether it is reflux or not. More and more people swallow reflux liquid slide into the stomach. The last place defense, reflux is the salivary glands in the mouth. These glands produce saliva, which contains bicarbonate. Every time a person swallows, the bicarbonate films with saliva into the esophagus. The bicarbonate neutralizes the small amount of acid or in the esophagus.

Basically, acid reflux drug inhibits the production or release of pepsin by chief cells and hydrochloric acid are produced by parietal cells of the stomach. Other drugs which may not completely inhibit the production, but that neutralize the acid.

Acid reflux medications are antihistamines or H2-receptor antagonists. Histamine promotes a pump in the stomach that releases hydrochloric acid. The H2-receptor antagonists prevent histamine from stimulating this pump. The blocking of the production of hydrochloric acid, which reduces the secretion and concentration in the stomach.

One of cimetidine acid reflux drug was introduced in 1975. He has a short half-life and short duration of action. The three H2-receptor antagonists are the most popular ranitidine, famotidine and nizatidine. They are stronger than Cimetidine because in addition to blocking gastric acid secretion, but also for the healing of ulcers by eliminating its causes. They also have a longer duration of action.

How to heal the cliche goes, prevention is better than you can prevent acid reflux or GERD, avoiding smoking and alcohol more and eating less fatty foods and spicy. When taking NSAIDs, take after meals. Lastly, avoid stress because it stimulates the release of the deadly acid.

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