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Constant acid reflux
I've been getting severe acid reflux. Starts when I have either a drink of water or breakfast and continues all day until I'm asleep. Sometimes it'll wake me up through the night but it's usually gone by morning, then I have water or food and it starts again. It's been happening about a week and is really weird as I've never had acid reflux before.
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Dr. Govind Satheesh
General Physician
5 yrs exp
Bangalore
The following lifestyle changes could help:
- Don't skip meals, you may not feel like eating but in such conditions you should have the reduced amount in frequent intervals(i.e. 3 square meals broken down to 5 or 6 as you can tolerate) and slowly increase as you get better.
- Reduce/ Avoid spicy,fried, fatty, junk and oily food
- Avoid/ Limit drinking coffee, tea and carbonated drinks to once a day
- Exercise regularly
- Increase daily intake of water to 3liters
- Avoid/Stop smoking and drinking
- Reduce stress through methods such as yoga/meditation.
- Avoid painkillers as it will increase your gastric problems at this moment.
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