Acid Reflux Treatment: Is that Chest Pain from GERD?
The main feature of GERD is chest pain. This pain is easy to recognise if it is just heartburn. GERD, however, can produce a deep pain that radiates into the back or side. This pain is not easy to differentiate from pain of cardiac origin. In heart pain (angina pectoris), the pain is a tightness [...]
Acid Reflux Treatment: Omeprazole.
Image via Wikipedia Omeprazole was the first proton pump inhibitor developed and this group of drugs has shown significant improvement on acid reflux treatment and gastric acid problems. These proton pump inhibitors stop the proton pump producing acid in the stomach. This pump is present in the parietal cells of the gastric lining and these [...]
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