How to Deal with Bile Reflux
Posted: Monday, July 16, 2007
by Joe Barton
Reflux Remedy
It's bad enough to have acid reflux--the backflow of stomach acid into the esophagus that causes heartburn and discomfort for millions. Add on bile reflux, where digestive fluid from the liver flows into the stomach and esophagus, and you've got a recipe for major discomfort that can be difficult to treat.
Many people who have acid reflux also have bile reflux, and it can be difficult to distinguish them, since both have heartburn as a major symptom.
Drugs known as proton pump inhibitors (Prevacid and Nexium are two popular ones) are normally prescribed for bile reflux, even though the drugs are technically designed to reduce acid. Ursodeoxycholic acid is a very common treatment, as it reduces the amount of bile that is produced, which limits opportunities for reflux.
There are also surgical options when it comes to treating bile reflux. Bile can be diverted away from the stomach by making a new connection lower down in the intestine. Part of the stomach may be sewn around the lower esophageal sphincter. This surgery is most often used to treat acid reflux, as it increases pressure at the lower end of the esophagus, making it difficult for acid to rise. It may be helpful for bile reflux, but some people still have symptoms after surgery.
Bile reflux does not seem to be as positively affected by lifestyle changes as acid reflux does, but since many people have both, the same recommendations apply. Some people get relief from eating smaller meals or avoiding acidic and spicy foods, but just as with treating acid reflux, these remedies don't work for everyone. My father actually had both after a bile duct was attached to his stomach instead of his intestine during a surgery.
Quite by accident after trying just about everything you always hear recommended for acid reflux, GERD and bile reflux, he found a really simple treatment at his local grocery store that has kept him pain-free for decades. So it certainly is possible to get rid of your bile reflux without resorting to surgery and a life of drugs.
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Top-level comments on this article: (3 total)No because there is still no promise and solution the the bile reflux problem. I am a member of the Barto remedies report and I joined hoping to find a remedy for BILE reflux, I even emailed the staff and got several replies to the effect that there were no remedies. So how come this report by Joe Barton???I have been suffering with bile reflux for 4 years now. its post gastric bypass. could you possibly tell me the remedy for bile reflux?
This article is named "How to Deal with Bile Reflux" and it's supposed to have a remedy for it, but Joe Barton mentions about his father or father in law getting a treatment item from his local grocery store, but never mentions what the item is.
Is this a joke or something? People are suffering from this reflux and are looking for solutions, so if you don't have a solution, or don't have a remedy as you claim you do, please don't put a teaser in your article, and then have the reader be not only disappointed, but angry too.
Can you tell me what the father of the writer of this artcile found at the local grocery store that kept him pain free from the suffering of Bile Reflux?
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