Home Remedies for Acid Reflux

If you are suffering from heartburn, especially after meals, it may be GERD or acid reflux. Apart from heartburn, other symptoms of acid reflux are gastric acid into the mouth, difficulty while swallowing any food, pain in the chest, coughing, asthma, inflammation in vocal cords with wheezing and sore throat. There are home remedies which are great for the people with acid reflux and all the ingredients of the remedies can be available at your home or at your nearest grocery store.

Acid Reflux Home Remedies:

Chilled fat free milk is good for the patients of acid reflux. If the patients drink small amounts of chilled fat free milk in every one or two hours, the burning sensation will become milder than before. You can drink plain water also instead of milk and add cumin seeds to water and drink it, this avoids gas formation in your stomach. Another option is to drink ginger root extract with honey after your meal; this helps your digestive system to work better and reduces acidity formation in your system.

We all know that spicy foods are must to be avoided as they increase the symptom even more. It is better to go for more small meals instead of few large meals throughout your day. Avoid citrus foods and spicy foods and sedatives which are used for high blood pressure should also be avoided as they can deteriorate the situation even more. Tranquilizers are not good and remember not to have orange juice when your stomach is empty.  

Barley grass is considered the most effective for the acid reflux. One glass of barley grass juice in one day will help you a lot and you will feel better in three to four days.

Another effective home remedy for acid reflux is apple cider vinegar, which relieves you from acid reflux quickly and it is considered one of the quickest remedies for the problem. If a patient with acid reflux drink half glass of apple cider vinegar daily, it works wonders.

Raw potato with its skin with ginger and yellow mustard is the best natural remedy for acid reflux and all the ingredients are easily available in your kitchen.

Water is a very important thing when you are suffering from acid reflux and even for the people who are more or less healthy. If you drink three to four litres of water daily, then the water consumption neutralizes the acids in your stomach.

Chewing gums are really good for acid reflux and the reason behind this is that when you chew the gum for long hours, it increases the saliva in your body, which is the best and natural anti acid known.

Sleeping in a wrong posture can increase the acid reflux in your stomach, if you can sleep with raising your head little bit, it can be comfortable and at the same time it reverses the condition of acid reflux.

These remedies are side effect free and the ingredients are available easily in your kitchen. However, apart from these home remedies, the people with acid reflux should consult the doctor, before it turns into chronic disease.