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Suggest Treatment For Weight Gain And GERD

My son has all the symtoms of GERD. I know, I suffered this many years ago. He is driving cab and eating fatty foods and gaining weight. I ordered probiotics for him today and told him to go to Walgreens and get PrilosecOTC. I am looking for information here for him. What else can I do? He has no insurance.
Fri, 11 Aug 2017
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Hello,the first thing he must do is to lose some weight and to have a diet with no fatty os spicy food, in fact the opposite. For GERD is best to do is the medical treatement with IPP, antiacids and prokinetics like Motilium, but for later the final treatement is the operation- the fundoplication Nissen for example. He needs to do manometry, PH-metry and radiological studies before thinking of any operation. Maybe he have a Hiatal Hernia and for that the surgical treatement id the only way. For the moment i advise the medical treatement and diet.
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Suggest Treatment For Weight Gain And GERD

Hello,the first thing he must do is to lose some weight and to have a diet with no fatty os spicy food, in fact the opposite. For GERD is best to do is the medical treatement with IPP, antiacids and prokinetics like Motilium, but for later the final treatement is the operation- the fundoplication Nissen for example. He needs to do manometry, PH-metry and radiological studies before thinking of any operation. Maybe he have a Hiatal Hernia and for that the surgical treatement id the only way. For the moment i advise the medical treatement and diet.