Is Milk Bad for Acid Reflux?
Milk IS bad for acid reflux in excess.
Interestingly, drinking milk may temporarily buffer stomach acids to make you feel more comfortable, but the fats in milk will actually stimulate the stomach to produce more acid. Skim milk in small doses is the prescription for comfort.
Cow's Milk and Infant GERD
GERD is a common condition in infancy and a study published in the journal Gut and Liver concluded that milk may be to blame. The researchers studied eighty-one infants giving all the drug omeprazole. The researchers then removed cow's milk from the diets of the one-third of the study participants that did not respond to the drug treatment. The study concluded that four weeks following the removal of cow's milk from the group's diet that all signs and symptoms of GERD were resolved.
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Farahmand, Fatemeh , Mehri Najafi, Pedram Ataee, Vajiheh Modarresi, Turan Shahraki, and Nima Rezaei"Cow's Milk Allergy among Children with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease"Print.
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