Heartburn is never fun, and I am super lucky I don’t experience it often, but my poor husband is always complaining about heartburn, and the older the more foods trigger it. Did you know more than 25 million adults experience heartburn daily? Everyone can have different things that trigger heartburn, but food is the most common trigger for heartburn. With so many people experiencing heartburn what are ways heartburn relief?
Before we get too far into everything, do you know what heartburn is? I didn’t know what it was up until three years ago when I experienced it for the first time. Before I had my daughter I never had heartburn, I had no idea what it felt like to have heartburn, what caused it or what it was exactly.
You hear the word “heart” and it’s easy to assume heartburn has to do with the heart, but that’s not the case. Heartburn has nothing to do with the heart, it’s actually the esophageal. Heartburn occurs when acid escapes from your stomach, and gets up into the esophagus. The lower esophageal sphincter is supposed to prevent it from happening, but it can relax or not close properly, letting the acid escape into the esophagus. Since the esophagus is not meant to hold acid it causes heartburn.
What Causes Heartburn?
What Causes Heartburn?Now that we know what heartburn is, what causes heartburn? My husband and I both get heartburn, but the same foods don’t trigger my heartburn that will trigger his.
- Diet
- Alcohol
- Smoking
- Being overweight
- Caffeine
- Stress
- Pregnancy
What common foods are known to trigger heartburn?
Many things can cause heartburn, but the most common is food. Your tummy might react to certain foods by increasing acid production, slowing down digestion, or inhibiting the esophageal sphincter’s ability to stop stomach contents from leaking back into the esophagus. There might be a list of foods that trigger heartburn, but everyone is different. My husband and I can eat a trigger food like tomato sauce, but only one of us might get heartburn.
Tips For Heartburn Relief!
I honestly don’t know of any awesome heartburn relief tips. The most common trigger is food, so I am going to go with PEPCID® COMPLETE®. Now, a few months ago I wouldn’t have said that. I would have done everything I could to avoid getting heartburn, because of that nasty chalky flavor [from other heartburn medicine] that makes me sicker than the heartburn itself. Seriously, I cannot handle that chalky feeling in my mouth. I am super excited to tell you about PEPCID® COMPLETE®, it’s not chalky, and the berry flavor actually taste kind of good! Much better than any other antacid I have ever had.
If you experiance heartburn, here are a few tips for heartburn relief:
- Laying on your left: have heard that sleeping on your left side can help to stop heartburn, but I have never tried it because I don’t know that I could handle heartburn long enough to lay down and go to sleep with it. Rather than laying down and trying this one out I will grab a PEPCID® COMPLETE®, which starts working right away .
- Lose Weight: If you think you are experiencing heartburn due to weight gain, you might consider trying to lose weight. Heartburn can get worse as you gain weight.
- Don’t stress: It’s it amazing what stress can do to the body. If you think your heartburn is stress related try your best to avoid stress. For those times, you cannot avoid stress there is PEPCID®.
- Stop smoking: Smoking isn’t good for you anyways.
- Avoid Foods: If there are certain foods that are causing heartburn, you may want to avoid them, or PEPCID® COMPLETE®.
- PEPCID® COMPLETE®: See why this is my favorite choice? It’s the only one that I can count on to take care of heartburn fast! The others are great suggestions, but when I have heartburn I need something that is going to fix it now, not weeks or months down the road.
If you are looking for fast relief when you need it PEPCID® COMPLETE® works great! Unlike so many other heartburn medications I have tried, it taste good! Yup, no chalky, gritty aftertaste left lingering in your mouth! Finally, heartburn medication doesn’t have to taste chalky. I have to admit, I was surprised at how good it tasted, and how good it worked. In my opinion, PEPCID® COMPLETE® is the way to go when it comes to heartburn!
Thankfully, I received my PEPCID® COMPLETE® taste kit the day before my husband and I left on our Disney Cruise. I tossed the bottle in my handbag, because I knew I was going to need it. All that yummy good, I knew one of us was going to need it, and the last thing I wanted was one of us to end up with heartburn. It’s not often we get away without the kids, and we didn’t even make it on the ship before Shawn experienced his first episode of heartburn.
Shawn gets heartburn worse, and more often than I do, so he has tried more heartburn medicine than I have, but I too have tried my fair share. Before trying PEPCID® COMPLETE® I associated heartburn medicine with chalk, and always dreaded needing to take it. Thank you PEPCID® COMPLETE®, because heartburn medicine does not have to taste chalky, it can actually taste good. I dread the horrible aftertaste anymore, and my husband agreed.
PEPCID® COMPLETE®
PEPCID® COMPLETE® is a dual action product that works GREAT! It combines an antacid with an Acid Reducer to start working in seconds and last all day or all night! PEPCID® COMPLETE® comes a chewable tablet for adults and children over the age of 12. You can get it in two flavors: Mint and Berry Flavor. I haven’t tried the mint flavor, but the berry flavor is pretty tasty, but most importantly it’s not chalky!
Did you know that Antacids (such as TUMS®) start to neutralize acid in seconds, work for 20 to 30 minutes per dose, and up to 3 hours if taken on a full stomach? GUESS WHAT? PEPCID® COMPLETE® starts working in seconds, taste good (better than TUMS®, shhh), and it continues to work all day or night.
Have you tried PEPCID® COMPLETE®? If so leave me a comment and let me know what you though about it, and if not let me know what you are looking forward to most about trying PEPCID® COMPLETE®.
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