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Barrett’s esophagus: Your tips and treatment?
Digestive Health | Last Active: Jan 14 8:33pm | Replies (22)Comment receiving replies
Sorry to hear you have BE at such a young age. I was diagnosed with it at age 63. I was eating and drinking whatever I wanted right up to bedtime. My Dr. put me on 40 mg of Pantaprazole 1/2 hr before supper. A good book that explains BE is The Acid Watcher Diet from Amazon. Lot's of good info your Dr. never tells you about. I was told BE can go away and on my last scope there was no sign of it! Watch your diet like a hawk. Low acid food only. No fried foods, tomato , vinegar products. Lose the salt, pepper, hot sauce. No booze, NO Soda. Low acid coffee is also on Amazon
(Healthwise) brand. I only drink unsweetened almond milk which is alkaline, Decaf green tea, water and 2 cups of low acid coffee with almond milk as a creamer. That neutralizes any acid in the coffee. Eat chicken breasts, fresh green veggies, melons, NO citrus, ripe bananas are OK.
Breakfast is oatmeal or cheerios with almond milk. Lose the fried fatty foods like bacon. Fresh is best, processed foods are loaded with chemicals. Your Dr. will decide if a biopsy is needed when he scopes you and sees tissue he wants to test. I get scoped in October for BE so I hope mine is gone like last time. Stay away from salty junk foods. Control your diet and you can lessen the chance of getting cancer. You could ask your Dr. to be put on a PPI to lessen the acid.
Good Luck!
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I have probably learned more from you and your wonderful suggestions than my doctors and literature they gave me. I'll be ordering the book soon. I'm a 66 year old hospice homecare caregiver. My husband has COPD and Emphysema and our grandson lives with us part time. So I feel like I'm always cooking 3 different meals at any given time. I come from a large family of great cooks and good food. I've been really struggling after I was diagnosed in June of last year. I followed the low acid low fat no sugar diet perfectly for 5 months then came the holidays and cheating started and I'm miserable again. But even before the holidays I was miserable because my downfall is not getting into the habit of more mini meals. I'm so busy taking care of others I don't have time to make 5 or 6 mini meals for me. I also have IBS so it's easier to go without eating then I tend to eat too much in the evenings it's a vicious cycle. But your advice gave me hope. Thank you.
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Thank you so much for your advice. I respect your willpower and discipline. Now I know I have to be more careful with what I eat. I just started reading Acid Watcher Diet, so I'll be learning more in the coming days. As a quick note, I am mostly a pescatarian, so I'm hoping that fish is okay.