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Suggest Remedy For Acidity And Heartburn In A Diabetic Patient
Question: My body tendency has always been acidic. However, nowadays I find the acidity and heartburn affecting me daily. I do not eat too spicy food. I do not smoke and I drink moderately only once a month. Tea intake is 2 cups per day - morning and evening. I am diabetic and take Gemer P2 in morning and Trivoglitor 1 in the evening. How can I get my acidity and heart burn under control? Is there a medication course that i can do?
Brief Answer:
You can certainly get a control over acidity and heartburn.
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Read and understood your history.
To recapitulate: Male/39 - Diabetic taking treatment - take Aciloc RD and Eno when needed - acidity and heartburn affecting daily in spite of the dietary and habit control - wants to know how to control acidity and heartburn...
I would advise you the following:
- First of all you have to have a perfect control over diabetes, regular blood sugar checking, HbA1c every 3 months.
- Upper GI Endoscopy to see the extent of the problems that the acidity and heartburn has caused you, any changes in the esophagus, stomach and duodenum.
- Take small frequent meals, divide the total food requirement into 4 parts and to be taken as breakfast, lunch, brunch (evening breakfast) and dinner. This will help you for control of diabetes as well as of acidity.
- Medicines:
Continue Aciloc RD exactly at 12 hourly interval like 6 am and 6 pm for if to be effective.
Happicid or Mucaine gel 3 teaspoonful to be take when you are on empty stomach.
Continue these for one month and possibly your problems will be over.
- No stress and anxiety at all. Avoid everything possible that causes your stress and/or anxiety. This helps tremendously.
- No late nights.
- Sleep after 1 to 2 hours after the dinner.
- You need minimum 6 to 8 hours of undisturbed sleep.
I hope that if you follow all the above things you will be absolutely fine. Not to break any of the rules mentioned above.
I also hope this answer helps you to get a control of acidity and heartburn, please feel free to ask further relevant queries if you need to or if you feel that there is a gap of communication.
You can certainly get a control over acidity and heartburn.
Detailed Answer:
Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Read and understood your history.
To recapitulate: Male/39 - Diabetic taking treatment - take Aciloc RD and Eno when needed - acidity and heartburn affecting daily in spite of the dietary and habit control - wants to know how to control acidity and heartburn...
I would advise you the following:
- First of all you have to have a perfect control over diabetes, regular blood sugar checking, HbA1c every 3 months.
- Upper GI Endoscopy to see the extent of the problems that the acidity and heartburn has caused you, any changes in the esophagus, stomach and duodenum.
- Take small frequent meals, divide the total food requirement into 4 parts and to be taken as breakfast, lunch, brunch (evening breakfast) and dinner. This will help you for control of diabetes as well as of acidity.
- Medicines:
Continue Aciloc RD exactly at 12 hourly interval like 6 am and 6 pm for if to be effective.
Happicid or Mucaine gel 3 teaspoonful to be take when you are on empty stomach.
Continue these for one month and possibly your problems will be over.
- No stress and anxiety at all. Avoid everything possible that causes your stress and/or anxiety. This helps tremendously.
- No late nights.
- Sleep after 1 to 2 hours after the dinner.
- You need minimum 6 to 8 hours of undisturbed sleep.
I hope that if you follow all the above things you will be absolutely fine. Not to break any of the rules mentioned above.
I also hope this answer helps you to get a control of acidity and heartburn, please feel free to ask further relevant queries if you need to or if you feel that there is a gap of communication.
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