Acid Reflux Diet Helper

Appstronaut Studios

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Features include:

Why should you care about acid reflux disease?

While acid reflux is a fairly common disease and some of the symptoms such as bad breath, dysphagia, and chest pain may seem mild, GERD can have some serious long term complications such as wearing away of the teeth, esophagitis, esophageal strictures, and Barrett's esophagus.

About GERD:

DISCLAIMER:

About this app

Acid reflux diet and food choice helper tool to make identification of good and bad foods for Acid Reflux, GERD (Gastroesophageal reflux disease) and heartburn symptoms easier.

The foods listed can be helpful to reduce Acid Reflux / GERD symptoms for people with Gastroesophageal reflux disease.

Features include:

- Comprehensive list of foods and whether they are Good, Bad, Or Neutral for Acid Reflux and heartburn.
- Search by food and beverage.
- Lookup by food category.
- General Acid Reflux, Acid Reflux Diet and heartburn info, with common symptoms such as heartburn, bad breath, dysphagia, vomiting as well as some common causes of acid reflux disease.

Why should you care about acid reflux disease?

While acid reflux is a fairly common disease and some of the symptoms such as bad breath, dysphagia, and chest pain may seem mild, GERD can have some serious long term complications such as wearing away of the teeth, esophagitis, esophageal strictures, and Barrett's esophagus.

About GERD:

Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), also known as acid reflux, or chronic heartburn, is a long term condition where stomach contents come back up into the esophagus resulting in either symptoms or complications.


Risk factors include obesity, pregnancy, smoking, hiatus hernia, and taking certain medicines. Medications involved include antihistamines, calcium channel blockers, antidepressants, and sleeping medication. It is due to poor closure of the lower esophageal sphincter (the junction between the stomach and the esophagus). Diagnosis among those who do not improve with simpler measures may involve gastroscopy, upper GI series, esophageal pH monitoring, or esophageal manometry.

Treatment is typically via lifestyle changes, medications, and sometimes surgery. Lifestyle changes include not lying down for three hours after eating, losing weight, avoiding certain foods, and stopping smoking. Medications include antacid, H2 receptor blockers, proton pump inhibitors, and prokinetics.

remedies: chewing gum, licorice, aloe, slippery elm, apple cider vinegar
causes: alcohol, chocolate, fried foods (e.g. french fries), mint, onions, garlic, tomatoes

DISCLAIMER:

We do not perform any testing ourselves. All compiled data should be used as guidelines not as basis of fact. Consult your physician before beginning any new diet. This general information is not intended to diagnose any medical condition or to replace the advice of your healthcare professional.

Ratings and reviews

I consider it a really great app. It's nice to have it on hand for a quick search when you're in the grocery store and try to sort things while dealing with acid reflux. Plus it is really great that they continue to update it and give the option to ask for requests for the future list. One thing I hope they'll add in the future is ingredients as well. I constantly look at the list of ingredients for everything, and I'm always nervous with things like malic, folic and ascorbic acid.

It's been one day since I started using it, but so far so good, it's a great way to keep track on what you're eating and also check options that won't trigger the reflux

This app has been so helpful. It's been great to simply search a food before cooking or when I'm eating out and try to focus my eating towards reflux remedy foods. It has definitely helped with my silent reflux. It would be good to include herbs and spices in the searchable list and there are some foods I've had to request. But it's so much easier to have this one place to search for most foods quickly, then occasionally I have to google. It has made my adjustment to a new diet much smoother.

What's new

- Minor UI improvements and SDK version upgrades.