I have gastric, acid comes to my mouth, from last week I felt bottom of my throat irritated?… by Indika
Mussle around the neck also some time pain full. how can I recover.
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You have got The GERD: Gastro esophageal reflux disease.
Here are some aspects about the treatment:
Self-Care at Home
Many people can relieve their symptoms by changing their habits and lifestyle. The following steps, if followed, may reduce your reflux significantly.
Don't eat within 3 hours of bedtime. This allows your stomach to empty and acid production to decrease. If you don't eat, your body isn't making acid to digest the food.
Similarly, don't lie down right after eating at any time of day.
Elevate the head of your bed 6 inches with blocks. Gravity helps prevent reflux.
Don't eat large meals. Eating a lot of food at one time increases the amount of acid needed to digest it. Eat smaller, more frequent meals throughout the day.
Avoid fatty or greasy foods, chocolate, caffeine, mints or mint-flavored foods, spicy foods, citrus, and tomato-based foods. These foods decrease the competence of the LES ( lower esophageal sphincter).
Avoid drinking alcohol. Alcohol increases the likelihood that acid from your stomach will back up.
Stop smoking. Smoking weakens the lower esophageal sphincter and increases reflux.
Lose excess weight. Overweight and obese people are much more likely to have bothersome reflux than people of healthy weight.
Stand upright or sit up straight, maintain good posture. This helps food and acid pass through the stomach instead of backing up into the esophagus.
Talk to your health care provider about taking over-the-counter pain relievers such as aspirin, ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin), or medicines for osteoporosis. These can aggravate reflux in some people.
Some of these changes may be difficult for people to make. Talk to your health care provider if you need some tips on losing weight or quitting smoking. Knowing that your heartburn will get better may keep you motivated.
Nonprescription (over-the-counter) remedies
These also may help relieve your symptoms. Check with your health care provider before trying any of these.
Antacids: These are effective when taken 1 hour after meals and at bedtime because they neutralize acid already present.
Some familiar brand names of antacids are Gaviscon, Maalox, Mylanta, and Tums.
Some are combined with a foaming agent. Foam in the stomach apparently helps prevent acid from backing up into the esophagus.
Medications
These drugs use different mechanisms to reduce reflux.
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
PPIs include omeprazole (Prilosec), esomeprazole (Nexium), lansoprazole (Prevacid), rabeprazole (Aciphex), and pantoprazole (Protonix).
They block the production of an enzyme needed to produce stomach acid.
PPIs stop acid production more completely than H2-blockers.
Coating agents
Sucralfate (Carafate) coats mucous membranes and sores to provide an additional protective barrier against stomach acid.
Promotility agents
Promotility agents include metoclopramide (Reglan, Clopra, Maxolon) and bethanechol (Duvoid, Urabeth, Urecholine).
They help tighten the lower esophageal sphincter and promote faster emptying of the stomach.
Hope that may help you!
Good luck!
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What are the differences between the Zoloft and the Prozac?… by davegespr
Hi guys,
I am planning to start take either Prozac or Zoloft.
But first, I need to know the differences between those two.
I know they are same SSRIs, but what makes them different from each other?
Please give me as much detail as possible.
Thank you!
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Go to the library and look them up in the PDR [Prozac p. 1801; Zoloft p.2586 - 2007 edition], or go to WebMD.com. Lexapro PDR p. 1190] is an SSRI with a low side-effect profile; it's one of the newer ones, so some docs might not be as familiar with it yet. These are SSRIs but they are different drugs [fluoxetine, sertraline, escitalopram], so they'll affect different people differently.
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What are the benefits and limitations of the extractions of drugs from plants?… by Diva* <
Am willing to award 15 points for the best answer,
I take Inderal long acting 80 mg 1 time per day. My BP still runs a little high. My cardiologist prescribed Cozaar 50 mg in addition. Just wondering if anyone taking Inderal or propranolol (generic for Inderal) has taken this combo and how they did? Any side effects? And that's not all: the drug also cuts the risk of diabetes in heart patients. For heart patients who already have diabetes, the drug lowers the risk of death. Treatment with Cozaar reduced the risk of death from stroke by one-fourth Studies found that patients with coronary artery disease might benefit from taking both Cozaar and a beta-blocker. The combination of Cozaar and a beta-blocker has been tested and results are promising. Cozaar is a type of drug known as an angiotensin receptor blocker or ARB. It is expected to show the same superiority to other beta-blockers — Betapace, Blocadren, Brevibloc, Corgard, Inderal, Sectral, Toprol, and Zebeta. It's not yet known whether other ARBs — Atacand, Avapro, Diovan, Micardis, and Teveten — will work as well. However, an editorial in TheLancet suggests that it is reasonable to expect that they. Most of the side effects from Inderal is insomnia and erectile dysfunction. My 15 year old daughter has intense itching, flaking and scaling in her scalp. It itches so much that it becomes red and and starts to bleed. She is using Head and Shoulders Intensive Treatment Shampoo and it is helping a little. I bought her Neutrogena T-Gel Shampoo since it has coal tar and it did not help. What other treatments are available that would work well? I get it when I take Nyquil or Tylenol PM. It's terrible because I am nearly asleep physically, my brain is shutting down and I can't keep my eyes open, but my legs feel like they're being electrocuted! I don't get them any other time… Am I allergic? Researchers also have found that caffeine, alcohol, and tobacco may aggravate or trigger symptoms in patients who are predisposed to develop RLS. Some studies have shown that a reduction or complete elimination of such substances may relieve symptoms, although it remains unclear whether elimination of such substances can prevent RLS symptoms from occurring at all. One of these genereic cholesterol lowering medicines is available at Walmart for $4.00 and the other is not. Please tell me what you used and what type of skin you had before and after. I've been researching glaucoma medications, and I don't understand the diff. between selective and non selective beta blockers for glaucoma treatment. Also, there are some glaucoma medications which drain the aqueous humor out of another part of the eye; does anyone know what part that is? Are there any other options? My 2 year old is allergic to egg. Thanks! “While the CDC recommends that people with egg allergies not be vaccinated without consulting a physician, research has shown that a couple of vaccination strategies may work. There are two approaches: 1) vaccinating the person after a series of allergy shots to desensitize the person to eggs; and 2) giving the vaccine in two doses, 30 minutes apart. The first dose contains one-tenth the recommended dose of the vaccine, and the second nine-tenth of the vaccine. This latter approach has been successfully tested in a large, multi-center clinical trial. You do have another option: You can talk to your health care provider about taking antiviral drugs prophylactically, or before you get sick. During the 2006-2007 flu season the CDC recommends oseltamivir (Tamiflu) and zanamivir (Relenza) for preventing and treating the flu. If you've been around someone who has the flu, ask your health care provider for a prescription of antiviral medication and begin taking the medication within 48 hours of exposure, even before any symptoms appear. There is a 70 to 90 percent chance the drugs will keep you from getting sick.” If your child is at high risk of complications due to the flu, a flu shot may still be advisable. Talk to your child's doctor to determine if that is the case.
How extractions of drugs from plants and it's applications interact with social, economical, political environment and cultural factors.
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I will try my best to give you some information on the subject. economical, sociological, political ramifications would require hundreds of pages and months of study and fact finding.
Many pharmaceuticals are so complex that it is not economically feasible to synthesise it in a laboratory. e.g. the anti-cancer drugs vincristine sulfate and vinblastine sulfate are so complex that plant extraction is the only economical production method. ( form the mediterranean periwinkel plant). Some chemicals, like antibiotics are used long before their chemical structure is discovered, and they are are extracted from bacterial or fungal fermentation). . A good example is penecillin. The exact molecular structure was determined decades after its first use. And laboratory synthesis was effected 50 years after Alexander Fleming's first discovery. It is still cheaper to extract the basic beta lactam molecule and modify it chemically in order to make newer semi sybthetic derivatives. (like ampicillin, cloxacillin, methicillin etc.). There are problems with natural plant exctracts. The source plant can be rare and in danger of going extinct if heavily exploited. A good example is the anticancer drugs taxol and paclitaxel. The source pacific yew tree is an uncommon plant and in danger. A bacterial alternate source has recently been discovered..
Hope that helps.
Doc. Dan.
Powered by Yahoo AnswersBlood Pressure - Inderal LA (Propranolol generic) and Cozaar good combination?… by brunettenxtdo
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– Not all blood-pressure drugs are alike. An exciting new study shows that Cozaar reduces the risk of stroke, heart attack, and death in seriously ill heart patients.
Powered by Yahoo AnswersWhat are the best treatments for itching, flaking and redness in the scalp?… by Starey
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Did she use the T-Gel Shampoo long enough? I've had the same problem since I was a child. In the past I bought the T-Gel and used it only 5-6 days, and was expecting to see immediate results. I quit using it and tried other products with no results - including harsh lotions/creams from my derm, like Clobex (which is a carcinogenetic). After frustration I just went back to the T-Gel and used every other day for about 2 weeks, and IT ALL WENT AWAY. Now I only use it once every two weeks or so. Since May I havent had ANY problems. You cant believe how relieved I feel…
Powered by Yahoo AnswersWhy do I get Restless Leg Syndrome when I take Nyquil?… by californiablueeyes
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****Certain medications-such as antinausea drugs (prochlorperazine or metoclopramide), antiseizure drugs (phenytoin or droperidol), antipsychotic drugs (haloperidol or phenothiazine derivatives), and some cold and allergy medications-may aggravate symptoms. Patients can talk with their physicians about the possibility of changing medications.******
Powered by Yahoo Answerswhat is the difference between simvastatin and pravastatin?… by big fell
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Both medications are in the same drug class and work by the same mechanism to lower cholesterol. However, simvastatin has a greater effect on lowering LDL (bad cholesterol) and triglycerides and increasing HDL (good cholesterol) than pravastatin. Simvastatin is also more likely to cause the rare but serious side effect of rhabdomyolysis because it is primarily eliminated by the liver where as pravastatin is excreted in the urine. You and your doctor will have to decide if the effects of pravastatin are enough based on how high your cholesterol is and any other health conditions you have.
Powered by Yahoo AnswersWhat acne medications work well for you?… by who's that girl? <3
By the way, I have awfully acne prone skin. I used the Clean & Clear Acne Control kit, but it didn't work, so I'm going to try the Neutrogena Micro-Clear Technology system of Acne Stress Control.
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I used to have it bad, and my dermatologist perscribed Klaron in the mornings and Differin in the evenings. Klaron did not work well, so don't waste your money, but Differin is a miracle product, both me and my cousin saw amazing results!
Powered by Yahoo AnswersWhats the difference between selective and non selective beta blockers for glaucoma treatment?… by Mohsin
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first of all ,selective means b1 receptors in glaucoma ,like betoptic ,non selective mean both b1 and b 2 receptors ,the difference is non selective like timolol cannot be given to asthmatic and heart patients ,while selctive can be and are more selective for receptors within the eye,regarding draining ,u mean trablecular meshwork and schlemms canal
Powered by Yahoo AnswersCan you get the flu vaccine if you are allergic to egg?… by illinoismom
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