Calcium - Acid Reflux / GERD Message Board

neddyflanders · 02-07-2007, 07:46 AM

I've started to drink Lactose free milk, 1 glass a day with carnation instant breakfast. I figured I needed more calcium since I was getting very little. I've noticed my nighttime GERD has greatly reduced. I slept through the night last night for the first time in months. Everything I read says milk is bad for reflux but I wonder if I lacked calcium. Of course it may have nothing to do with it and this may be one of those times when it just improves for a short while. We'll see.

needaremedy · 02-07-2007, 07:57 AM

neddy, I read something (again, I wish I remember where I read it) that *they're* beginning to think milk is bad for it because the proteins in milk require more acid secretion to digest. So for a person with low acid, it might be tough and for a person with too much acid, they wouldn't necessarily want to be stimulating more acid... But if it works for you, it works for you, right? It seems like there's an positive to every negative and vice versa.

neddyflanders · 02-07-2007, 09:10 AM

Yeah I've read that also. Thing is I don't think I have to much or to little acid. My problem is coming from food not being digested correctly and I don't think it from the stomach. Think all the pressure against stomach weakened that muscle. Who knows, maybe it needs calcium to strengthen it. Then again as usual it probably is coincidence that I started drinking it when I improved and 2 days from now I'll feel like hell. I've had that happen in the past many times.

neddyflanders · 02-07-2007, 02:07 PM

I also stopped eating chocolate around the same time. I know that causes the stomach muscle to weaken but could it have been having such a bad effect that I was getting bad GERD every night and now that I stopped it my GERD at night is greatly reduced?