What Causes Difficulty In Swallowing While Having Acid Reflux Disease?

Posted on Fri, 5 May 2017

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Question : Yes . I am having flux-disease/232326?iL=true" >GERD symptoms and am unable to completely swallow anything today. In the past when this has occurred I find that once the food or
Iquid comes up I feel ,I have better. This AM I am not feeling better and if I try to swallow anything it just comes back
up. I donot have flu symptoms.

Answered by Dr. Saumya Mittal (41 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Possible GERD

Detailed Answer:
HI
I am Dr Mittal.
I have read the message.
I agree with you that this might be GERD.
You need to get a endoscopy tested.
For now get injection Pantoprazole.
Thereafter a regular course of Pantoprazole 40 mg daily prior to meals will help you.
Avoid spices, beverages, non veg diet.
Tall to your doctor - iron and potassium that you take may actually increase the GERD.
It may be better to take foods rich in them rather than supplements.
In case you need to ask anything more specific please do enter a follow up query.
Best of luck, Dr Mittal.

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