How to Avoid Spicy Foods to Ease GERD Symptoms
Simple steps to avoid eating spicy foods to help ease GERD symptoms
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Things You'll Need
- Lean meats
- Herbs
- Vegetables
- Fruit, except citrus
- Digestive enzymes
- GERD medication
Instructions
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Start with small, easy to digest meals more frequently to keep the acid production low in your stomach, but stay away from pepper--any pepper.
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Include foods that are high in complex carbohydrates; such as rice, bread, grains, cornbread and cereal and pasta, except tomato-based sauces.
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Eat apples and bananas and vegetables such as potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, peas and carrots
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Eat lean meats with little or no fat and steamed fish, not fried,
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Take digestive enzymes to help ease acid production
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Take heartburn preventative medication, suggested by your doctor
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Tips & Warnings
Go easy on the pepper, but salt is OK.
Try broiled fish or meat, instead of fried.
Use herbs such as basil, rosemary or parsley, which are mild spices, but won't cause GERD symptoms.
At resturants, ask what substitutes they have, if the selection has pepper or other spices.
At home, substitute spices for herbs in your recipes.
If you smoke, stop. Smoking inhibts the production of saliva, which is one of your defenses against damage to the esophagus.
