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In making a GERD friendly diet, you need to remember that you need to avoid acidic foods or foods that increase gastric acidity. This means that your daily diet should not in any way include any citrus fruits like lemons, limes, grapefruits, tangerines, and tangelo. Sadly, the dietary restrictions do not end there. In an effort to make your GERD diet effective, this means that you have to avoid many other foods that have been proven to increase incidences of acid reflux which is what makes GERD such a nuisance.

Examples of other food stuff people have to avoid eating to effectively manage and maintain their GERD diet include: fatty food, caffeinated drinks, chocolate, onions, peppermints, and alcoholic beverages. These food and drinks contain special ingredients that act to cause irritation to the stomach thereby increasing gastric acidity and as a consequence worsen GERD by increasing the frequency of acid reflux.

Modifying your diet is one cost effective way of managing GERD. However, you also have the option of trying out other alterative foods. To elaborate more clearly on this, let’s say that you’re into drinking milk everyday to help prevent osteoporosis. Remember, milk and other dairy products are high in fat content and this can lead to gastric irritation and in turn increase in gastric acidity. You should always keep in mind anything that increases gastric acidity, “MUST” be avoided at all costs.

The problem now is how to drink milk without causing too much gastric irritation. The solution is very simple, instead of consuming whole milk every single day, you could go for fat free milk. This solves everything because fat free milk not only provides you with enough calcium everyday but it also doesn’t cause too much gastric irritation. Though foods alternatives help manage GERD while still eating your favorite food, the sad fact is that not all food has alternatives.

Although some food may not have GERD friendly alternatives, this is not the end of everything. You still have other cost effective options available and one such option requires only the use of common sense. For example, if you’re a person suffering from GERD due to your stomach’s high acid content you could go for alkalinizing your diet. This means eating large amounts of broccoli, peas, asparagus, avocados, pumpkins, and almonds.

People with GERD often make the terrible mistake of eating a large meal before bedtime. The reason why this is such a terrible mistake is because eating a huge meal increases the acid secretion of the stomach. Remember, the human body’s peak acid secretion time is during the wee hours, around one or two in the morning. Peak acid secretion is the time when the stomach secretes a lot of acid to help digest all remaining food and empties itself in preparation for the next meal.

Essentially, if a person eats a huge meal right before bedtime, the stomach increases its acid production to digest the more generously proportioned meal. It takes around four to five hours to completely digest all the food in the stomach and during that time, the peak acid secretion usually occurs. Due to this natural bodily function, this results in very high levels of gastric acid. Therefore, you need to avoid eating heavy meals before bedtime lest you want to aggravate your GERD which in turn will surely disturb your sleep with painful night acid refluxes.

Aside from not eating heavy meals before bedtime, you could also choose to wear loose clothing. Though this might not sound like a practical method of managing GERD, the science behind it is very sound. Wearing tight clothes constricts your abdominal cavity. Once your abdominal cavity is starved of space, the contents inside the abdomen, particularly, the digestive organs and their contents occupy all the available space around them. In a nutshell, this means that wearing tight clothes increases the incidence of reflux for people suffering from GERD. 

There are a lot of other, cost effective methods, which can help you manage GERD. Ever heard of the term positional therapy? It is one of the simplest cost effective forms of managing GERD. The principle behind positional therapy is to take advantage of gravity to help influence the inclination of the gastric content inside the stomach thereby effectively reducing the incidence of reflux in GERD while lying down.

Suffering from GERD is not in any way an easy circumstance; however, there are many simple but logical way for managing GERD effectively.