Show 1224: What Is the Best Way to Manage Your Heartburn? (Archive)

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Medicine, Alternative Health, Health & Fitness, Kids & Family

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Bellyaches and heartburn are among the most common problems driving people to the pharmacy to seek relief. Heartburn, a burning sensation behind the sternum, happens when acid escapes from the stomach up into the esophagus where it doesn’t belong. People used to chew antacids like Tums or Rolaids to neutralize the acid. Do you know […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Gradyton and I'm Terry Grady. Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.1	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at people's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.0	Are you finding it challenging working from home?
0:18.0	The temptation to snack can add pounds.
0:20.0	It may also cause heartburn. This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe
0:25.8	Grady. Digestive distress is often the first sign of COVID-19. What symptoms should you be alert for?
0:40.0	People under stress often experience flare-ups in their irritable bowel syndrome.
0:45.4	We'll ask a gastrointestinalologist what can be done for IBS.
0:50.0	Heartburn is one of the most common digestive disorders.
0:53.6	What causes it and what can be done to prevent it?
0:56.6	Proton pump inhibitors often work, but they also have side effects.
1:01.2	Natural approaches might offer relief.
1:03.7	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, what'slines, restaurants and workplaces like call centers have been implicated as locations where COVID-19 infections are spread.
1:25.2	Big social events like weddings have also provided the opportunity for people to transmit
1:30.1	the virus even before they know they're ill.
1:33.0	Scientists have paid much less attention to more informal gatherings
1:38.0	that might have fewer people but closer contact.
1:41.0	Now a study used national health insurance data for most of
1:45.6	2020. They compared the rate of COVID infections in households with a birthday in the
1:51.6	previous two weeks to those without such a celebratory
1:55.2	event.
1:56.2	There were 2.9 million households included in the study.
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