News and features related to heartburn/GORD

1. Long-term use of indigestion drugs may increase hip fracture risk
   

   Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are drugs that are often taken by people who have gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), sometimes called heartburn. This is when you have an uncomfortable burning feeling caused by acid from your stomach flowing up into your oesophagus, the tube that carries food fr

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2. Heartburn drugs may raise risk of pneumonia
   

   Drugs taken by millions to prevent heartburn may raise the risk of pneumonia, reports a new review of studies looking at acid-suppressing drugs such as Losec and Tagamet. However, some of the best studies in the review found no increase in risk, making these findings less certain. For people who suf

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3. Make mine a stomach friendly coffee
   

   22nd March 2010 - Scientists say they’ve pinpointed several components of coffee that may cause many people to suffer stomach aches and heartburn. The researchers, from Austria and Germany, say their discovery of ‘culprit’ substances could lead to a new generation of stomach-friendly brews with the

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4. Indigestion remedy recalled
   

   17th November 2009 ­- The medicines regulator, the MHRA, is carrying out a precautionary recall, at wholesale and pharmacy level, on two batches of 500ml bottles of Gaviscon Advance Peppermint Flavour. The batch numbers are: 924471 and 925071. The reason for the recall is because low-level bacterial

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5. Heartburn: Spot your personal triggers
   

   Doctors call it reflux. You probably call it heartburn. But whatever it's called, no-one wants to experience the unpleasant sensations of heartburn - a burning chest pain that moves up towards the throat, and an acid or bitter taste accompanied by a feeling that whatever you just ate is coming back

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6. Five tips to ease exercise heartburn
   

   You exercise to keep fit, but when you go running, do aerobics or head to the gym, there it is: heartburn. It's not just your legs that are churning, it's your last meal as well, churning right up into your throat. Your exercise heartburn has even made you hesitate to work out and made you wonder: W

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7. Relieve heartburn: ten hints for Christmas
   

   Between 10% and 20% of people in the UK need frequent relief from heartburn. If you're among them, you're probably looking forward to Christmas with a mixture of anticipation and queasiness. Christmas usually turns into a caloric free-for-all, and festive menus are replete with the foods that are on

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8. Treatment tips for severe, chronic heartburn
   

   No matter what you eat, you worry that chronic heartburn will always be there. You've tried all the antacids, followed a bland diet and given up on certain foods completely. But still you wake up in the middle of the night, sometimes with pain deep in your throat, other times with a sore throat and

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9. The special risks of night-time heartburn
   

   For some people long-term heartburn can be debilitating. Symptoms can become so bad that they are woken several times a night, making them so over-tired that their work performance is affected. That condition is chronic heartburn, also known as GORD, gastro-oesophageal reflux disease. For most peopl

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10. Treatment tips for frequent heartburn sufferers
    

    You are starting to notice that it’s not only obvious things, like too much spicy food or coffee, that trigger painful heartburn symptoms. Now you are getting heartburn in the middle of the afternoon, just working at your desk or sitting on the sofa at home. Sometimes you wake up in the night with a

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