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In a population-based study from Scotland, use of commonly-prescribed acid suppression medications such as proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) was linked with an increased risk of intestinal infections with C. difficile and Campylobacter bacteria, which can cause considerable illness.
Compared with individuals in the community who did not take acid suppression medications, those who did had 1.7-times and 3.7-times increased risks of C. difficile and Campylobacter, respectively. Among hospitalized patients, those using the medications had 1.4-times and 4.5-times increased risks, respectively.
Although acid suppression therapy is often considered relatively free from side effects, the findings suggest that there are significant adverse gastrointestinal consequences of their use. "Users of these medications should be particularly vigilant about food hygiene as the removal of stomach acid makes them more easily infected with agents such as Campylobacter, which is commonly found on poultry," said Prof. Thomas MacDonald, senior author of the British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology study.
DOI: 10.1111/bcp.13205
Maybe they should cut back on haggis and chips instead.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @05:27PM
Give soylent 2.0 (the pre-bottled stuff) a try.
You can order it from amazon [amazon.com] and get it overnight if you really want to.
Lots of people have reported that a soylent diet made their GERD go away. I have seen a handful of people who tried the powdered version and got heartburn for the first couple of meals, but that's the powdered version and many more had the opposite result.
It sounds like you don't have anything to lose at this point. If it doesn't work you are only out ~$35 +shipping. If it does help then you can decide what to do from there. If it were me, I'd try anything to avoid surgery. Ok, not anything but drinking an ultra-bland healthier version of Ensure for a few days is totally something I would do.
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday January 06 2017, @07:48PM
I don't want the hateful stuff. I'd rather have GERD and gobble pills than eat Soylent. I want to eat normally again and enjoy my food. That's why I'm getting surgery - and something that promises a long-term cure too, not fundoplication.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday January 06 2017, @09:01PM
Sad to see you are yet another adherent of literally hating what you have no experience with.
But it is your life. You get to live with the consequences of willful ignorance.