11 Easy and Effective Remedies for Heartburn & Severe Acid Reflux
We all loves to enjoy a delicious meal but no one wants a painful heartburn after that. Heartburn can be quite uncomfortable at times and this is getting very common these days. Over the last decade, heartburn and acid reflux are increased up to 50%.
People who suffers from regular heartburns, feels a sharp burning sensation in their chest and throat but if the diseases gets longer then it may bring a lot of severe and extremely uncomfortable effects that too includes oesophageal cancer.
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Luckily, there are few quite simple and easy remedies that can help you deal with painful and uncomfortable heartburn.
1. Drink Aloe Vera Juice
While you buy aloe Vera juice from the food store, for your beauty purposes like healthy skin and hair, you can also get some aloe Vera gel directly from the plant and drink with water to treat severe heartburn and acid reflux. As the home remedies, experts states that Aloe Vera juice as natural healing properties that soothes the entire Oesophagus and reliefs the irritation in it.
2. Add A Little Ginger
Fresh ginger can be used in many useful and tasty ways, either in food or beverages. And in either way, it is beneficial for treating heartburn and acid reflux. Ginger is known as one of the best food that deals positively with acid reflux while reducing inflammation and gastric conditions.
3. Don’t Lay Down After Eating
A lot of people just lay down after huge meal, which is absolutely wrong. Laying down right after a large meal can be a great reason of worst kind of heartburn.
Try to have your meal at least 3 hours before laying down. In this time, you will digest the food and the chances of acid coming back to oesophagus will reduce.
4. Add Baking Soda to Water
Baking soda is helpful in preventing and reducing the serious heartburn symptoms but it should be used with moderation. Because heavy dose of baking soda can cause nausea. Just mix half a tsp. of soda in a glass of water and drink to soothe your oesophagus and stomach from acid reflux.
5. Pop A Stick Of Gum
We all loves to chew a gum and we do it often but do we know that chewing a sugar-free bubble gum can reduce the chances of heartburn? Chew a sugar-free bubble gum to reduce the heartburn symptoms and prevent acid reflux.
6. Wait On The Workout
While having a big meal can make you feel to have a workout right after it to reduce the chances of bloating or getting fat. But working out right after the meal can cause heartburn. As the experts says that do not workout even after 2 hours of having a meal. If your stomach is full, there could be a pressure between stomach and oesophagus that can cause acid reflux.
7. Raise the Head of Your Bed
I know this too sound weird but raising the back of your head while sleeping can reduce the acid reflux symptoms. Raising the head doesn’t mean increase the number of pillows below your head, but place some blocks or bricks below the head side of the bed. If you add a pile of pillows below your head then you might end up have worst kind of heartburn as this might create pressure on your stomach.
8. Eat Black Licorice
I know this is quite weird or sound too bizarre but munching on a little of black licorice can literally reduce heartburn symptoms. Licorice is used for treating many stomach and digestive problems like heartburn, stomach ulcers, colic, and inflammation at the stomach lining.
9. Avoid Trigger Foods
Eliminating or avoiding triggered food is one of the best and main reason to prevent heartburn. Some of the foods that can cause heartburn are caffeinated and carbonated beverages, citrus fruits, spicy foods, tomatoes, onions, garlics, chocolates, and peppermint etc. Not every food can cause heartburn for everyone but still it is better to pay close attention to check what foods are causing heartburn.
10. Wear Loose Clothes
Well this is strange, but what you wear can have a serious effect on acid reflux. Extremely tight dresses might trigger heartburn right way. Wear something that makes you feel comfortable and in which you have excess room for air to breath.
11. Slow Down Your Eating
Avoid eating too quickly. This is one of the brilliant tip to prevent acid reflux. The experts recommend that if you eat huge and heavy meals quickly in one sitting, the chances of heartburn are double and the condition would be worst. Eat until you are comfortably full and chew slowly to have better digestion.
is that Mrs or Miss Sheikh? i’m the ‘sheik of Araby – an old song that was primarily humorous – if you want o hear it try youtube just joking madam, Thank you for this interesting cure and new use for aloe vera. A local lady in Missouri told me a week or two back (an elder) that she had found plain ol’ baking soda and water to be her most effective cure for heartburn or indigestion. this makes sense to me because it is very strong “base” and the problem is too much acid so it neutralizes that. I have these problems since the 80’s and at first took zantac and then the over the counter generic equivalent but have found that for my temporary problems Tums and Rolaids work good enough for me and they are around a dollar for around ten doses…. I have never tried baking soda or aloe vera but I will at the first opportunity. A Dios (go with God) the ONLY practical, functional and sustainable way to go…. but I am guessing you already know that – God Bless
that should have been youtube/spike jones/sheik of araby… don’t get insulted please though, it is very old and not intended to be offensive to anyone.
thanxs Fatima Sheikh for your post. I’m a G+ fanatic and I have come across lots of home remedies for heartburn; sometimes challenging and sometimes contradicting. I thank all members of Google Plus for their sharing and contributions. many people might be wondering how baking soda works. baking soda is a base (alkali) and during acid reflux imply that the stomach is in acidic medium. As a rule of thumb it is known that when an acid is mixed with base, it produce salt and water. In most cases, baking soda will be in excess and will make the whole digestive system become alkaline, a medium suitable healthy digestion.
We heard a lot about aloe vela juice. I know the plant since 60’s since we have been using it traditionally for curing abdomen problems. The problem with me is its bitterness. Is it advisable to use sugar or honey or sweeteners? I am asking because I know all these are chemical compounds and there might be some chemical reactions that might produce undesirable products. GOOG MORNING ALL.