Almost eight in 10 heartburn sufferers experience symptoms at night. If you don’t relish the thought of staying up, these suggestions from the American Gastroenterological Association should help: Eat your big meal at lunch instead of at night. That way, your stomach won’t still be working on that big meal when you go to bed. It may also be helpful to eat four or five smaller meals spread throughout the day

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In the January 6, 2005 issue of the New England Journal of
Medicine, two different research groups came to similar
conclusions about CRP. At Brigham and Women’s Hospital in
Boston, a team examined the cases of 3,745 coronary disease
patients to compare the impact of two cholesterol-lowering drugs -
- atorvastatin (Lipitor) and pravastatin (Pravachol). They found
that the choice of medicine was not as significant as getting LDL
(”bad”) cholesterol numbers below 70 in high-risk patients… and
lowering CRP to below 2 mg per liter of blood. In those who
reached the LDL target, the risk for recurrent heart attacks or dying
from a heart attack or stroke was reduced by another 50% when the
CRP level was lowered to 2 mg.

I thought you would find this excertp from the Washington post of interest.

The question: Might things linked to heartburn during the day — such as drinking, smoking and certain medications — cause nighttime heartburn as well?

This study: Analyzed data on 15,314 adults, at least 40 years old, who completed a questionnaire about sleep habits. Smoking or drinking alcohol did not increase the likelihood of having nighttime heartburn, but people who drank carbonated soft drinks were, on average, 24 percent more likely to be awakened by heartburn. Benzodiazepine, a common sleeping pill, also increased nighttime heartburn.

Who may be affected by these findings: Anyone who is awakened by the pain of acid reflux.

Caveats: The authors speculated that the high acidity level of carbonated soft drinks contributes to heartburn; among medications, the reason only benzodiazepine had this effect remains unclear.

Bottom line: Sufferers of nighttime heartburn may want to restrict their consumption of carbonated beverages; those taking sleeping pills may want to talk with their doctor about this possible side effect.
By Linda Searing / Special to the Washington Post

Acid Reflux Heartburn Solutions

If you have reflux, you know how it feels when food returns to haunt you. Dr John Briffa suggests several strategies for taming heartburn at night

Sunday May 29, 2005
The Observer

While a good evening meal can send us to bed in a contented state, our last supper may also make its presence felt later in the form of acid indigestion and heartburn. A recent study in the American medical journal Chest has revealed that imbibing carbonated drinks in the evening appears to increase the risk of the acid reflux at night. It has been suggested that the acidic nature of these drinks adds to the stomach’s own acidity, thereby increasing the risk of heartburn.
My experience is that many other nutritionally oriented approaches can neutralise this problem. A top tactic is to ensure that food is well digested before retiring - food can overstay its welcome in the stomach, increasing the risk that it will leak through the valve between the stomach and the gullet (the gastro-oesophageal sphincter, or GOS).

Lying down ups the risk of the stomach content escaping into the oesophagus. One approach for overcoming reflux at night is to avoid overwhelming the stomach with food in the evening. A modest-sized supper is a good ploy - this is more easily achieved if, after a half-decent lunch, you have a snack of, say, fruit and/or nuts in the late afternoon. An earlier dinner may help, too.

Although recent evidence suggests that fizzy drinks should be given a miss in the evening, my advice is to keep intake of all fluids to a minimum around the time of the evening meal. Drinking dilutes stomach acid, impairing digestion.

Additional fluid also adds volume to the stomach contents, which tends to increase reflux risk. Alcoholic beverages seem to be a particular problem, as they promote laxity in the GOS. For those prone to reflux at night, it seems that a night-cap of whisky and soda is something well worth avoiding. One often-effective strategy for refluxers is to avoid mixing protein-based foods (such as meat, fish and eggs) with starch-based foods (bread, potatoes, rice and pasta) at the evening meal.

This means basing meals on either protein or starch, along with cooked vegetables (other than the potato) or salad. Some believe that this makes digestion easier, and my experience is that it is often very effective in the treatment of heartburn. Further digestive aid can be had from thorough chewing, which breaks up food and allows the digestive juices greater opportunity to do their job.

Latest Acid Reflux Heartburn Facts

(PRWEB) May 19, 2005 — It’s a fact, that 98.5% of all pharmaceutical drugs do not heal or cure, they just mask or “hide” the symptoms! You’ll still have the problem and it will only get worse unless you fix it.

The drugs that are on the market are very good at masking the symptoms and reducing the side effects of heartburn related problems, but they are only to be used for a short period of time and not become a steady diet. The drugs are not addressing the underlying problem, they only reduce the effects of acid reflux so your heartburn experience is not as painful.

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William Lagadyn, author and researcher of the “Cure Your Heartburn” publication, and a former sufferer of G.E.R.D. and acid reflux, have helped 100’s of people understand why they get heartburn and acid reflux and how to correct the problem naturally, once and for all!