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Gerd Treatments

September 16, 2008 on 1:44 pm | By admin | In Health & Fitness :: Cancer / Illness

Sulcrafate is another agent sometimes used to treat GERD and acid reflux. There are limited data in the literature to show that Gerd causes alleviates symptoms in some patients and may promote healing in patients with mild to moderate disease. When treating GERD, sulcrafate must be administered four times a day in a liquid form, he said, so that it can bind to the damaged mucosa in the esophagus.

According to Garnett, there are no data to show that the promotility agents metoclopramide or bethanechol promote healing in GERD causes. There are data that show that in patients with mild to moderate GERD, the healing seen with cisapride is comparable to that seen with high dose H2 antagonists. Garnett does not recommend that promotility agents be used as add-on therapy with H2 antagonists because there are no data to support the benefit of combination therapy. “lt increases cost without necessarily providing extra benefit,” Garnett said.