Re: OT: Gastritis causes (was) OT; SIMPLE TEST OF HCL LEVELS

[Guest guest]

Hi ,

Interesting about low stomach acid can cause gastritis...

A GI doc who was involved with my second exploratory surgery, did a pre-surgical

endoscopic

exam, found gastritis only on the exam..

A month or so after the surgery I went to see him, he told me the gastritis was

caused by excessive

stomach acid and prescribed the " purple pill " and said I would need to take it

for life... My family

doc told me after a month of being on it to stop taking it and it eliminates

stomach acid... About

6 months later while at the Mayo Clinic, they determined I had low stomach

acid..

So my family doc was right on to have me stop taking that medication...

Gastritis is something that is difficult to tell when it happened, as explained

to me, mine

could have happened this past month or 5 years ago, so current stomach acid is

no indication

of the cause..

It can be caused by low or high stomach acid or a host of other things...

http://digestionquestions.com/gerd/stomach-acid.html

>>>Stomach Acid

Reflux can result from excess stomach acid, low stomach pH and other causes

Ever wonder how your body can digest all the food you put into it? Among a lot

of other factors, the pH of your stomach acid plays a large role, especially in

diseases such as IBD, Crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis. A stomach acid pH

that is higher or lower than normal may be a cause of the symptoms of GERD, acid

reflux and IBS, as well.

What Is Stomach Acid Made Of?

Your stomach acid is essentially hydrochloric acid, (HCL-) which you may

remember from high school chemistry class. A normal person has a stomach pH

ranging from 1.5 to 3, and their average is generally about 2. This is extremely

corrosive, and would destroy your body except for the special lining in your

stomach which protects you from that acidity.

With such strong acids in our bodies, digesting food is generally no problem.

However, for a variety of reasons, stomach acid can escape the stomach and start

to eat away at parts of your body that don't have the special protective lining

your stomach has. This can lead to conditions like GERD and Irritable Bowel

Syndrome. The damage to your other tissues is made worse if your stomach acidity

is too high, which can be caused by diet or by structural abnormality in your

body.<<<<

http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/gastritis/

>>>What causes gastritis?

Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection causes most cases of chronic

nonerosive gastritis. H. pylori are bacteria that infect the stomach lining. H.

pylori are primarily transmitted from person to person. In areas with poor

sanitation, H. pylori may be transmitted through contaminated food or water.

In industrialized countries like the United States, 20 to 50 percent of the

population may be infected with H. pylori.1 Rates of H. pylori infection are

higher in areas with poor sanitation and higher population density. Infection

rates may be higher than 80 percent in some developing countries.1

The most common cause of erosive gastritis—acute and chronic—is prolonged use of

nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin and ibuprofen.

Other agents that can cause erosive gastritis include alcohol, cocaine, and

radiation.

Traumatic injuries, critical illness, severe burns, and major surgery can also

cause acute erosive gastritis. This type of gastritis is called stress

gastritis.

Less common causes of erosive and nonerosive gastritis include

autoimmune disorders in which the immune system attacks healthy cells in the

stomach lining

some digestive diseases and disorders, such as Crohn's disease and pernicious

anemia

viruses, parasites, fungi, and bacteria other than H. pylori

1 Lee Y, Liou J, Wu M, Wu C, Lin J. Review: eradication of Helicobacter pylori

to prevent gastroduodenal diseases: hitting more than one bird with the same

stone. Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology. 2008;1(2):111–120.

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Take care,

Jim

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and mix in a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda and drink it down. If you have a

healthy amount of acid, or excessive amounts, the baking soda should have a

chemical reaction that will cause you to belch when it bubbles up in the

stomach. If you have not burped within a few minutes of the test, then you may

very well have an insufficient level of acid in the stomach.

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[Guest guest]

Hi Jim,

Rarely if at all is excess stomach acid responsible for chronic gastritis. In

the eighteen hundreds excess stomach acid was never even a consideration. If a

person had Gastritis or acid reflux, they were treated with HCL. The reason

doctors nowadays are claiming that there is such a thing as making too much acid

is that Allopathic medicine is based on the prescribing of prescription drugs.

By telling patients that they have excess stomach acid, doctors can push

prescriptions such as Nexium or other acid reducers. I hate to sound so jaded,

but in every case of Gastritis and acid reflux that Dr. has treated his

patients had low stomach acid, not high acid. In every case of Ulcer the

patient had low acid which allowed the Hpylori to thrive. Unfortunately acid

reducers though they may provide temporary relief, further damages the digestive

system and can contribute to leaky gut and chronic Gastritis.

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into a foam. You can use it as a tool to test for low stomach acid.

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> > > > In the morning before eating or drinking, take an 8 ounce glass of water

and mix in a 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda and drink it down. If you have a

healthy amount of acid, or excessive amounts, the baking soda should have a

chemical reaction that will cause you to belch when it bubbles up in the

stomach. If you have not burped within a few minutes of the test, then you may

very well have an insufficient level of acid in the stomach.

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