Anybody thinks virus/bacteria cause reflux and will antibiotic work? - Acid Reflux / GERD Message Board

dorisnflau1 · 05-30-2006, 12:03 PM

The reason I asked was I never had reflux/heartburn whatsoever at all until just one day, everything came all at once. I started off one day with severe post nasal drip, then stomach upset , then now non-stop LPR symptoms for 6 months. I am suspecting a virus or bateria did the trick. Afterall , ulcer was caused by the H pylori which nobody found out until a decade later. I did have the Pylori test on me and it was negative. BUt who knows, there can be so many other virus or germs out there. Has anyone tried taking any stomach antibiotic (cipro...) and fix the reflux? I am willing to try anything now cause the symptoms are unbearable and definitely affecting my life style....

spider37 · 05-30-2006, 12:05 PM

umm i have been on antibiotics and only made the reflux worse

Eve_8 · 05-30-2006, 12:10 PM

Hi dorisnflau1!

I also wonder if it could be caused by bacteria. I bought that yogurt Activia that is supposed to have billions of bacteria (Bifidus Regularis) to regulate your digestive tract. Before eating this yogurt, I never had problems. Then bam a week and a half of eating the yogurt and I develop symptoms for GERD! I still think it has something to do with the yogurt, and I don't care if that makes me sound ridiculous. I refuse to take PPI's for the rest of my life. They are toxic and they prevent your stomach from digesting correctly. My friend Anne's doctor told her that she will need to take a pill a day for life. I think that that is unacceptable! Sorry for the rant, I am frustrated.

Anyhoo, I wonder if more studies on this disease will reveal that GERD is brought on by something and more importantly that it is curable.

I have not tried a stomach antibiotic. But I read on the digestive disorder board how taking Magnesium pills is helping people with GERD symptoms, to feel better.

wakkochic17 · 05-30-2006, 08:05 PM

people have been on long-term antibiotics and still get heartburn.. I was on antibiotics for 2 weeks one time for pneumonia.. it didn't help it at all. In fact it most cases antibiotics can cause gastric problems. Therefore if it is a bacteria, it's something that current antibiotics aren't able to touch. People get GERD for different reasons.. for some it's possible it's viral or some unknown bacteria maybe.. for others something triggered the LES to not work correctly. If anything I think we're going to find it's something in our diet.. I can't imagine people several hundred years ago had the rate of GERD we do today.

dorisnflau1 · 05-31-2006, 07:59 AM

I absolutely agree it is something we ate that trigger the GERD. Like I said I never have any kind of gastro symptoms in my whole life. I have never even tried a bottle of Malox. Then I was out of the country, went out and eat a lot (seafood kind), then that was it. GERD symptoms for 6 months. It was horrible!! Therefore I still think there were some unknown virus or bacterial that caused that. Did anybody try Cipro before? One of my doctor said Cipro is a kind of antibiotic that will not hurt the good bacteria in the stomach. But then I heard other bad story of Cipro that I have not tried. Maybe I subconsciously think Cipro will work and I will safe it for my last resource. How sad....