Hiatal Hernia, Heartburn and Acid Reflux – 5 Remedies to Try When Antacids Won’t Work

Have heartburn? You may have a hiatal hernia.

A hernia is when one part of the body pushes through an opening or gap into another part of the body. In the case of a hiatal hernia, this is when part of your stomach pushes up into your esophagus, allowing easy passage for stomach acid to go where it should not go. It sounds pretty dire, but most small hiatal hernias don’t cause problems at all.

Larger hiatal hernias however can lead to heartburn, acid reflux and powerful chest pain. Some hiatal hernias require surgery, but self-care is oftentimes enough to keep the discomfort caused by a hiatal hernia in check. Some even claim such home remedies have helped end their long struggle with pain after meals.

Home remedies for heartburn and acid reflux

Eating bits of celery can help curb heartburn. The alkaline properties of celery neutralize the acid in your stomach and keep everything kosher down there.

Drinking peppermint tea after a meal, before heartburn has a chance to settle in, can help too. You may have used peppermint to soothe an upset stomach as a child. This works by neutralizing the acid from the stomach, calming you down before the acid has a chance to rise and cause heartburn.

Bananas are like nature’s antacid, and they’re just plain good for you too! Relieving the symptoms of heartburn is now easy and tasty.

Apples help soothe the pain of acid reflux. Like bananas, apples control the level of acids in your stomach, making for easier digestion without the pain.

Drinking a glass of water after you eat will help dilute stomach acid and settle your stomach, stopping acid reflux before it even has a chance to start.

-Magdalena

Do you have any natural cures for heartburn or acid reflux? Comment and tell us about them!

8 comments:

  1. Ginger, 21. January 2008, 17:07

    A spoonful of honey helps with acid reflux. Also you shouldn’t eat right before bed or lay down right after eating.

     
  2. Gilbey Scott, 25. February 2008, 21:57

    I’m beginning to see that heartburn is just a small part of the picture. Heartburn can be a sign of other acid related problems once the body uses up the alkaline reserves in the cell tissue and starts borrowing from the bones. At this point, it appears that the body has little defense against illness.

     
  3. Yolanda, 26. February 2008, 17:20

    Is it possible that a spoonful of honey helps the medicine go down? Oh, thats Sugar. I think honey helps the world go round.

    Gilbey, what is with the cell tissue borrowing from the bones? Can you explain that? How can you tell when the body “has little defense against illness”? I’m very curious and interested. Hope you can fill me in.

     
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  5. Judith van der Roos, 26. April 2008, 19:48

    You have overlooked the obvious. Heartburn is often the result of food not being digested in a timely manner because of a lack of digestive enzymes in the stomach and small intestine. It is a common misconception that we all have the same digestive enzyme profile in our gut, we simply do not. We would if we ate healthy, organic foods, fruit, veg, nuts, seeds etc but most people do not because they eat processed rubbish. Antibiotic medicines also deplete our gut of natural enzymes. Buy some digestive enzyme capsules from a good seller like lef.org or vrp.com, they are not expensive. Most drs are unaware of this simple and inexpensive solution to most chronic indigestion and heartburn issues, but then they would not be able to make so much money if they did not prescribe drugs like zantec etc.

     
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