Heartburn can literally diminish the quality of your lifestyle and even impair your standards of living. With the fear of unexpected burning pain creeping up after each meal, or the sudden attacks of acid reflux during your sleep, Little wonder so many heartburn sufferers are stressed out.

When heartburn becomes a life- threatening situation, the burden, sometimes reaches levels that make it even harder to solve. Further down, we will show some easy techniques to deal with acid reflux and alternative new technologies such as heartburn surgery called E.L.F.

The first step to counteract acid reflux is to take a seriously look at how and what you are eating. In most cases, a simple change of eating habits can save you from heartburn surgery and regain the normal life you once had.

Try to lower your intake of acidic foods such as fatty meats, tomatoes or citrus fruits. All of these foods are high in acid and can cause heartburn to occur especially if you eat a lot of this type of food on a daily basis.

Another thing to try before taking the step toward heartburn surgery is reducing the amount of food you are eating in one sitting or reducing your portion size. Over the years portion sizes have often grown to double their size from the 50s and 60s, and this can be part of the reason we are seeing an increased number of patients that are dealing with acid reflux problems.

Don’t forget to drink plenty of water daily. Drinking 4-8 glasses of water every day will help to clean the toxins in your body. Try to stay in shape by doing 30 minutes of exercise, three times a week, this can actually stabilize the digestive process. It’s also important to eat three hours before sleeping and stay in an upwards position for 30 – 60 minutes after eating. All these small changes can make huge differences at improving your heartburn condition and staying far away from heartburn surgery.

The last solution when noting else works is having heartburn surgery. The good new is, today’s technologies in regard to heartburn surgery have greatly improved. Let me introduce to you a technique called E.L.F, which requires repairing your digestive problems without having to do any incisions.

ELF stands for Endoluminal Fundoplication. This procedure requires a surgeon to fix the stomach valve ( sphincter muscle) by introducing through the mouth, a special tool, that will add more creases around the sphincter muscle, allowing it to open and close tighter. The operation takes about 1-2 hours, has no incision, and recovery time is four times faster than any conventional method. And the great news is the patient’s success rates for ELF are very high.

Heartburn surgery can be extremely demanding, and when you are finally up to making this last very important decision, it’s good to know there are procedures like ELF, that can make this challenging moment, an easier one. Talk to your primary health care physician in order to find out if you are eligible for this type of procedure. Only after several examinations will you know for sure if ELF is right for you.

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