QuickTips Index

Symptoms of GERD
Gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) does not close properly and stomach contents reflux back up into the esophagus. Knowing the symptoms can help you receive a diagnosis and treatment sooner.

Acid Reflux Diet Menu - Day 21
Daily menu featuring heartburn-friendly foods and recipes. These are ideal for those individuals on an acid reflux diet. Suggests for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks are given. Each dinner menu shown here gives an Entree with a link to the recipe for its preparation, along with suggestions for side dishes.

Heartburn Treatments
If you are one of the millions of individuals who suffer from chronic heartburn, you want, and need, a method of treating it. These treatments options include lifestyle modifications and may also include medications.

Self-Care Strategies for Managing Heartburn - Easing Nighttime Heartburn
Nearly eight in ten heartburn sufferers experience symptoms at night. Tips to follow to relieve nighttime heartburn.

Easing Nighttime Heartburn
Nearly eight in ten heartburn sufferers experience symptoms at night. Tips to follow to relieve nighttime heartburn.

Avoid Lying Down Immediately After Eating
Lying down with a full stomach can cause stomach contents to press harder against the LES, which tends to relax when a person lays down, causing an increased chance of refluxed food. How can you prevent this?

Elevate your head while you sleep
Lying down flat presses the stomach's contents against the LES, which can result in acid reflux. Tips on how you can avoid having acid reflux episodes.

Meal Planning Quick Tips to Prevent Heartburn
One of the leading triggers of heartburn is the food we eat. Since we all have to eat, we need ways to prevent food from triggering our heartburn. This involves good meal planning.

Heartburn-Free School Lunches
School lunches prepared by a school can often be higher in fat, which can be a heartburn trigger for those children and teens who suffer from chronic heartburn or GERD. The best option, therefore, may be for kids to take home prepared lunches to school.

Preparing for Your Doctor's Visit
You are seeing a doctor about your chronic heartburn. To get the most our of your appointment, it will help to prepare ahead of time.

At Your Doctor's Appointment
Tips for a more productive doctor's appointment.

Heartburn 101 - Meds and Remedies to Treat Acid Reflux
There are many remedies, both over-the-counter and prescription, that are used to treat heartburn and GERD, and many people find helpful. For others, they want an alternate, natural way of treating their heartburn. These range from folk and homeopathic remedies to healthy diets to lifestyle changes.

Heartburn 101 - Surgical Options For GERD
With long-term GERD, complications may occur, and surgery may be the only option.

Know when it's time to see your doctor
If you experience certain heartburn-related symptoms, you should see your doctore.

Self-Care Strategies for Managing Heartburn - Learn the Truth
There is inaccurate information about GERD that is widely accepted. To be able to better take care of your health, and handle your GERD, read what some of these myths are find out what the truth is.

Heartburn 101 - Non-Surgical Procedures For GERD
Some endoscopic procedures are nonsurgical and are less invasive than surgery. Doctors will usually consider less invasive measures first.

Self-Care Strategies for Managing Heartburn - Managing Stress
While stress can worsen heartburn, it is rare for it to be the cause of heartburn. But extreme physical stress, such as that experienced by individuals gravely ill or severely injured, can cause ulcers to develop that's accompanied by heartburn.

Heartburn and Stress
While stress can worsen heartburn, it is rare for it to be the cause of heartburn. But extreme physical stress, such as that experienced by individuals gravely ill or severely injured, can cause ulcers to develop that's accompanied by heartburn.

Heartburn 101 - Conditions That Cause Heartburn
The condition most often responsible for causing heartburn is Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD). But other conditions can also cause heartburn.

Self-Care Strategies for Managing Heartburn - Heartburn Effects on Your Body
Acid reflux can affect the body in several ways, and isn't limited to just the burn and pain in your esophagus.

Chew gum after eating
Chewing gum or sucking on a lozenge for 30 minutes after meals will help reduce acid reflux, or heartburn. Find out how.

Eat smaller, more frequent meals.
A full stomach can put extra pressure on the lower esophageal sphincter (LES), which will increase the chance that some of this food will reflux into the esophagus. Learn more.

Will a bland diet cure heartburn?
A bland diet isn't bad for heartburn sufferers. In fact, it may make them feel better. But the bland diet alone will not cure heartburn caused by Gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD.

Heartburn 101 - Complications of Long-Term GERD
If GERD is untreated, it can be harmful; the constant acid reflux will irritate the lining of the esophagus, and complications can occur

Heartburn 101 - FAQs on Heartburn-Related Disorders
Frequently asked questions about heartburn, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), complications of GERD, peptic ulcers and hiatal hernias.