Everything You Need To Know About Hiatal Hernia Symptoms
Treatment, Home Remedies, Diet and Lifestyle

Hiatus Hernia Symptoms Relief Scheme: Step 1: No Acidic Food

First of all visit your doctor. Please do it. Symptoms which I described above could easily be a symptoms of heart attack, ulcer or ten different other diseases. You really don't want to wait for these conditions to develop. So visit your doctor as soon as possible!

If you have severe heartburn which doesn't allow you to sleep at night ask your doctor for PPIs (Protonix, Prilosec, Nexium, etc.). You can buy them over the counter now but it is better to consult with your doctor about it.

Now you think that "hey, this guy isn't giving away any remedy - he is just putting me on drugs"). Not really. Heartburn could be treated without drugs but it will be very long and challenging process - I tried it myself and it is quite painful experience. Drugs can improve this process big time. The problem with drugs is that they just mask the symptoms while leaving root cause intact.

As a next step please remove all acidic food from your diet. Remove all of it. I know this will be the most challenging thing for you to do. But don't let heartburn develop to the point when you will be forced to do it. You can find a list of food acidity on this website. Anything with acidity less than 4 will make your esophagus hurt. Please do it - this is one of the key steps you need to do to be heartburn free.

Now you have to reconsider your diet. Even though you removed all acid food from your diet in the previous step (I hope you did!) some of the food in your diet could be quite bad for your stomach. So after each meal write down what you ate and how bad your stomach was hurting after that. Do this exercise for 7 days and try to find trends in it. It is usually quite possible to find obvious heartburn causing meals there.

Check out on what you usually do after your meals. If you're just sitting around then change it. Walk at least 20 minutes after your meals (at least after lunch and dinner). This will not only give you more energy but will improve your digestion and help your stomach and esophagus to fight heartburn.