Re: Ant Acids frequently impair digestion/Arnold

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Hi Arnold!! Yes, I completely agree with you on the acid blockers! I

have come accross so much info on the side affects and cant believe

our gastro doesnt realize these affects. I discovered the blockers

also interfer with other meds and he never brought this to our

attention. One of his main meds is stool mover(vacs just about

destroyed his intestinal track) and I think when the acid blocker is

given to close to the stool script it makes his movements backup

worse due to the acid blocker interfered with the stool med, which

in turn causes added reflux(when there is intestinal back up this

causes stomach acid backup). It just seems like such a revolving

door when it comes to his meds, one seems to affect the other, has

side affects, that requires more meds, and so on and so on. I was

happy to find a natural form(aloe vera juice) that seems to have

really helped him when it comes to the gi issues he has. Then to be

told by someone(I do appreciate cautions) that the aloe can have bad

affects. Boy did this upset me. I did a ton of research on the aloe

and cant seem to find the negative affect that was mentioned to me.

They did post later more about the negative substance in aloe and

then gave a link about it. I just knew In my heart that natural was

going to be our sons only hope and then the aloe thing. I was a

little discouraged on natural, but trying to shake off the negative

and move on. We live in such a toxic(this includes over use of meds

also) society and our children are the ones suffering the affects

of. Thank you for the info on acid blockers. He well be seeing the

gastro this month and I am hoping he can get off the prevacid. I am

going to out write ask him many, many questions about the meds he

has our son on. And ask for explanations on my leary feelings about

them. He has tended to be a little proud/bothered with our concerns

in the past. As though we should just automatically trust everything

he does. I am going to give him one more try and go from there.

Jennie<><

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> Hi Jennie,

> Ant Acids such as prevacid neutralize the Hydrochloric Acid in the

stomach

> needed for digestion of food and nutrients. Unless the acidity of

the stomach

> acid is actually measured, which it usually is not, the problem

of " food and

> acid " backing up the esophogus can be caused by the incomplete

digestion of

> the food due to insufficient acid. The undigested food is then

rejected by the

> small intestine due to incomplete processing, and it shoots it

back up the

> esophogus. This inability to properly digest and assimilate

nutrients from food

> can lead to severe deficiencies of important nutrients such as B

vitamins

> etc. Discontinuance of the prevacid, may lead to a big

improvement if this was

> the case.

> arnold

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