Is this acid reflux?

Try sour kraut. A month ago I stumbled on a book on vegetables. In one of the chapters I read about sour kraut ( fermented cabbage ) and its beneficial effects on intestines. I ate one 1liter jar of it per day before meals for 10 days. I don't want to say that this therapy made away with my problems completely but one thing is sure: I don't have burning throat and bloating, belching and burning in my stomach subsided considerably. Make your sour kraut yourself from organic cabbages in the following way: 1. chop your cabbages 2. put the mass you obtain in a large enameled container in a few layers adding some salt to each layer and pressing until the chunks of cabbage give out juice (you should use 1/10 kg of salt for a 12 liter container). 3. Put some wooden plate and weight on top so the stuff stays compressed. 4. Cover with some mesh made of cotton and leave to ferment for about 2 weeks in a worm ( 10-18 degrees Celsius) place where the stink of gases won't bother you. After 2 weeks your sour kraut is ready. Take off the mould that often occurs on the surface. Don't get rid of the juice. Drink it with your sour kraut. This recipe worked for me. There is another one on http://www.happyherbalist.com/sour_kaut.htm. If you live in Chicago go to a Polish deli and ask them about sour kraut made with traditional methods. They should have it in barrels with a lot of juice. I don't know what is the value of sour kraut available in food chainstores ( I did't go for it because of additives used in mass produced food) After drinking the juice or eating a lot of sour kraut don't go away from home as it is almost sure you'll get short lasting diarrhea (start the teraphy on the weekend). Try the above recipe. It won't hurt you. Stop eating foods containing sugar. Give up coffee, coke and fatty foods for a while. Good luck.

There are a number of possibilities
1) Stomach has peptic ulcers – Severe pain will be there, reduced by food in-take. Take a simple blood test to see if you have H. pylori in your stomach. If yes treat it and the problem should go away. Pylori may easily transfer between family members.
2) If drinking milk or eating a milk-based product causes gas problem it is a case of lactose intolerance and easy tests are available.
3) Also see if you have aerophagia (unconscious swallowing of air). This may be tested by placing (chewing on) wooden sticks or pencils between upper and lower jaw, to avoid swallowing of air.
4) Also eat slowly and chew well and concentrate on eating (No TV while eating). Never eat while lying down - Sit straight up and eat (Grandma`s advice). Avoid carbonated drinks or carbon dioxide producing acid suppressors.

The food escapes from Stomach to small intestine, only when they are ground down to about 2 mm in size.

Stomach mean while keep producing acid to help it digest. So help your stomach push the food out faster by grinding it down as much as possible in your mouth (this is esp true about hard rind/skin fruits) so that nature does not have to send it back up like in goats or cows!!! No offense meant. (Nature has provided stomach as a temporary storage of food in these animals so that they can chew leisurely later after gulping down the grass but not so in human beings!!!)

Eliminate the possibilities by trial and with the help of your doctor. Good luck and take care.