Children with acid reflux on holiday

Here in Cyprus the holiday season is in full swing, the heat is tremendous and everyone is using the swimming pools to cool off. My acid reflux disease is just about under control although I do have frequent bouts of heartburn and sometimes wake up through the night with acid in the esophagus.

One big problem I was thinking of is acid reflux in children and how do they cope when on holiday. After all we do not want some kid throwing up in the pool because there Acid reflux is not under control.

So what can parents do for there children when on holiday to prevent acid reflux? How do they even know they have acid reflux? It’s not as if they can reach for the medicine cabinet for a cure, any medications would have to be brought with them.

Firstly they should watch what they are eating, stop feeding them things that can set off bouts of heartburn. (Very hard when you are on holiday)

Secondly they should try to stop the kids running around strait after meals, another thing that is hard to do while on holiday. . Does the child suffer from a burning sensation in the upper stomach or esophagus, especially after meals, if so medication may be needed but running around will definitely exasperate the condition.

Definitely stop them swimming, not only to save the pool but because lying flat when swimming will help acid to reflux.

If you are not sure that your child has acid reflux but suspect they might then you could read up on the full article “acid reflux in children” on my website.

acid reflux caused by stress and computers

Hi, it’s been a while since I wrote in my blog. The main reason is I bought an e-book on how to speed up my computer and started to implement the changes needed to make my computer super fast. The first three or four changes went ok, then I had to download some free software to help with cleaning up some files, this also went ok. In fact it was all good until the part where I could remove some files from my registry which would really quicken my computer. I removed the files and suddenly my computer went seriously slow. I couldn’t get into a lot of programmes, web browsers where knackered and lots more went wrong. What’s this got to do with acid reflux you might think? Well the stress that this caused seemed to aggravate the acid reflux. It is thought that 50% of acid reflux sufferers also suffer from stress and in my case with the computer it seems to be correct. Stress seems to trigger behavior which in turn sees your normal routine go out the window.

Anyway this was not the end of my problems. I spent weeks trying for a solution to get back into the registry to change the files back to the original. However some of the files I had been told to delete where files that would not let me back into the register. Stress levels rising steadily, acid reflux also on the rise. I eventually contacted an expert who said he would have a go but I should start to back up any files I had on the computer. Again the stress levels rose and heartburn was a daily occurrence. I used up all the space on my plug in device the all my cd,s and finally had nearly everything downloaded. My expert turned up about a week later and had a go at my registry. He also couldn’t get it right and told me that I would have to reinstall everything. So he went about wiping my hard drive and reinstalling Windows. We then proceeded to put my files and software back on the computer and found out that they were all corrupted and could not be reinstalled. Stress levels continuing to soar, acid reflux was now uncontrollable. Not to worry he took my files away and said he would play with them and see what he could do, however he was not able to do anything. A lot of my programs where downloaded from the internet so I used another month trying to get the people I have bought them off to let me download them again. Some did but some where not as accommodating (more stress, more acid reflux). I have now spent another month trying to get my computer back to normal. It is still not done properly yet.

So what can you do to reduce stress levels which in turn will lessen attacks of heartburn? Well first you should try to relax. Regular exercise will also help to reduce stress. I have started walking for a bit of exercise but I really wanted to do some strenuous exercise, like smash up my computer.

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