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Living with Chronic Heartburn
What we do in our daily lives will often determine whether we suffer from heartburn or not. If you suffer from GERD, your lifestyle habits can have a huge impact. Learn how to live with chronic heartburn.

Travel Heartburn Help
Unusual foods, eating on the run, and the overindulgence that often goes hand in hand with being on vacation can all contribute to a flare-up of acid reflux disease. Combine that with the stress of jet lag and sleeping in unfamiliar surroundings, and you’ve got a recipe for putting the burn back into heartburn. However, by taking a few precautions when you travel, you can have the vacation you dreamed of and leave your heartburn symptoms behind.

Living With Peptic Ulcers
You've been diagnosed with a peptic ulcer. Your doctor will have provided you with a treatment plan which will include antibiotics or lifestyle modifications, or both. In the majority of cases, a peptic ulcer will heal in time with proper treatment.

What you should do if you have a hiatal hernia
A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach pushes through an opening in the diaphragm, and up into the chest. This opening is called the esophageal hiatus or diaphragmatic hiatus. If you've been diagnosed with a hiatal hernia, you'll need to know how to live with it.

Living With Acid Reflux Disease
If you have been diagnosed with acid reflux disease (GERD), you'll want to learn how to control the symptoms. The acid reflux disease will still be there, but you can aleviate and in many cases, prevent the symptoms.