A new device is helping treat acid reflux and heartburn ahead of the holidays - 25 News KXXV and KRHD

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — The holidays are present – and with each the celebrations comes a batch of rich, exceptional food.

Eating those peculiar meals tin pb to heartburn symptoms and acerb reflux.

A section diligent successful College Station shares her acquisition with GERD, gastroesophageal reflux illness and however she tin present bask each her favourite foods.

“I emotion the Chick-Fil-A beverage lemonade and I got to wherever I couldn’t portion that anymore due to the fact that the lemonade bothered maine truthful bad, and conscionable things similar that tomatoes,” says Andi Coursey, GERD patient. “Random foods that I liked to devour conscionable kept bothering maine and medicine wasn’t helping.”

Andi Coursey had heard of GERD before, but it wasn’t until she had accordant tummy symptom aft everything she ate for 2 years.

“The prime of beingness conscionable wasn’t determination and that was conscionable excessively long,” says Coursey. “I person young kids. I person tons going connected successful my beingness to person those experiences.”

GERD is similar acerb reflux but happens much frequently.

“Patients who person gastroesophageal reflux illness person symptoms year-round, successful peculiar successful the holidays erstwhile you are eating a batch of foods that you don’t usually eat, and a batch of desserts and spices and things that whitethorn induce reflux and heartburn much substantially than what you would usually experience,” says Dr. Matt Jordan, General Surgeon, Baylor Scott & White.

“Ultimately, the occupation that leads to heartburn and reflux is determination is simply a musculus astatine the apical of the tummy that’s expected to enactment closed successful betwixt swallowing to assistance support acerb successful the tummy and successful patients who person gastro, that musculus is weak. It doesn’t relation good to enactment closed,” says Dr. Jordan.

There is simply a country that could assistance cure radical of gastroesophageal illness and it includes metallic beads.

“The LINX instrumentality is simply a magnetic ringing of beads that sits astir the junction of the esophagus with the tummy to support acerb from coming retired of the stomach,” says Dr. Jordan. “When the tummy is afloat and filling with acerb and starts to propulsion up towards the esophagus, good the magnets successful the instrumentality go progressive to assistance support that sphincter closed.”

Coursey had the process done astir 4 months ago.

She says the results were contiguous and due to the fact that of her palmy surgery, her hubby volition spell successful adjacent period to get a LINX instrumentality arsenic well.

“It was quick,” says Coursey. “It was easy. I was disconnected enactment a fewer days. It was beauteous overmuch astir contiguous that I could spot the difference. I lone took my medicine astir a week aft country and aft that, I stopped each my reflux medicine and I person not taken immoderate reflux medicine ever since.”

“I tin portion my beverage lemonade and not person immoderate issues. I don’t aftermath up successful the mediate of the night. I get to person amusive with my kids.”

If you are experiencing heartburn symptoms and acerb reflux, Dr. Jordan recommends you scope retired to your superior attraction doc to spot if you suffice arsenic a campaigner for the LINX device.

You tin larn much astir GERD connected Baylor Scott & White’s website.