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Tuesday, 5 October 2010

How To Stop Heartburn From Ruining Your Life

By Mary Landry

Any individual who is experiencing heartburn on a constant basis will know just how bad it may be. It really can screw up your life. You live with the knowledge that soon you are going to experience the pain and nausea, yet again. While antacids do bring the relief that you need, they are not effective in actually preventing heartburn attacks.

So, should you think about taking some other kind of treatment? The answer is a definite yes. But as to which type of treatment is best at preventing heartburn, raises a whole bunch of issues depending on your views and outlook regarding natural treatments and remedies. Let me explain.

If you seek medical advice, you're probably going to be suggested to use some kind of medication like H2 blockers or Proton Pump Inhibitors (PPI's). These will certainly produce effective relief, as millions of sufferers will confirm. However, there are a number of serious drawbacks with these medications that concern a great deal of people. Chief among these are:

� even though they all create relief from the pain, their actions is brief. It is only the symptoms of your condition that are dealt with, so stop taking the medication and back comes the pain and distress.

� recent studies have shown that sometimes not only do the symptoms of heartburn re appear once medication is stopped, but there is actually an increase in stomach acid production. This is known as "rebound" and there is the danger that people become dependent on their medication to prevent this happening.

� thirdly, the drugs that these kind of medications have normally generate adverse, potentially harmful side effects. This is a common concern that many people have all with drug based medicines.

So, what other options are available to you? Do drug free treatment methods supply a good option?

The answer is a definite yes. If you are open minded enough to consider investigating these alternative treatments you will be pleasantly surprised to find that they offer a means of preventing heartburn that is completely natural, equally helpful and due to the fact that they are drug free you won't experience any negative side effects.

Furthermore, these natural treatment options are developed to remove the causes of heartburn and not just hide the symptoms of the problem. Changes to diet and lifestyle are combined with the most appropriate form of natural medication (herbal or homeopathic) to create a program of treatment that targets the factors that trigger the condition and eliminate them.

So now you have a way to really stop heartburn from taking place and not just a way of taking care of its symptoms. All you need is an open mind and a little effort. Who knows, you could even discover the ultimate treatment... A permanent cure.

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