Information for patients with GERD

  GERD is a chronic disease that is prone to recurrence, mainly related to emotions, eating habits and lifestyle. If you can pay attention to the following matters, it will be beneficial to the recovery of the disease and the prevention of recurrence.  The following five points are the main causative factors of GERD, which must be paid attention to, and should be avoided and corrected: 1, too much alcohol; especially strong alcohol.  2, eating too much sweet food; including sweet drinks, very sweet fruits, etc.  3, eat too much fat; such as fried food, fatty meat, snacks containing a lot of oil such as cakes, bread (like croissants, all kinds of crisp), sweet cookies and all kinds of nuts rich in fat such as peanuts, melon seeds, walnuts, sesame, pistachios, etc.; 4, eat too much meat and vegetables.  5, too much to eat spicy food, strong coffee and other stimulating food.  Some other precautions 1, to maintain emotional well-being, the spirit of optimism.  2, life should be regular, pay attention to the cold to keep warm, avoid overexertion.  3. Diet should be moderate, should be regular and quantitative, not too full.  4. Do not eat 2 hours before bedtime, elevate the head of the bed when sleeping may relieve the symptoms, reduce bending and leaning forward movements.  Patients can eat bread without oil when hungry, preferably salty sliced bread; cookies should eat salty cookies; you can cook some porridge to eat, porridge can be half japonica rice, half glutinous rice boiled, put some fresh yam is better (when the porridge will be boiled into small pieces of chopped yam, and then boil for a few moments).