Ahh quite so.
Being horizontal is much more of a challenge to one's tomach to keep the acid in. Being vertical gravity does most of the work.
This is why heartburn is often worse at night. When we are sitting or walking around the nasties stay in the stomach. Lay down and it comes washing up.
Why? Something doesn't work quite right, could be too much food, or a hiatal hernia bum sphincter. Anyway it's the horizontalness that makes you notice it all of a sudden.
Take a serious look at what is going on and you may find that this is a problem in other ways. Waking up at night a lot, often it's stomach problems that wake you up. Get heartburn a lot, that type of thing. Go see a GI person and get it looked at.
By all means no need to run off and get medicine unnnecessarily but on the other hand, exposing the eophagus to acid repeatedly can lead to Barrett's esophagus which in turn can lead to esophageal cancer. Esophageal cancer is definitely not something to play around with, or take the predicators lightly.
Ahh quite so.
Being horizontal is much more of a challenge to one's tomach to keep the acid in. Being vertical gravity does most of the work.
This is why heartburn is often worse at night. When we are sitting or walking around the nasties stay in the stomach. Lay down and it comes washing up.
Why? Something doesn't work quite right, could be too much food, or a hiatal hernia bum sphincter. Anyway it's the horizontalness that makes you notice it all of a sudden.
Take a serious look at what is going on and you may find that this is a problem in other ways. Waking up at night a lot, often it's stomach problems that wake you up. Get heartburn a lot, that type of thing. Go see a GI person and get it looked at.
By all means no need to run off and get medicine unnnecessarily but on the other hand, exposing the eophagus to acid repeatedly can lead to Barrett's esophagus which in turn can lead to esophageal cancer. Esophageal cancer is definitely not something to play around with, or take the predicators lightly.
