What's the best food when you're suffering bad reflux?

Is you bed tilted (head raised)?
I'd eat something the first thing when I'd wake up. An empty stomach is a hungry stomach and a hungry stomach makes acid.

Try baked fish to get away from the chicken some.
I always have more mucous when I drink milk.
Try almond milk or rice milk.

well cooked (over cooked) brown rice is a food i have rarely if ever refluxed

i eat a bowl of it with a little organic chicken broth, or my own broth from a recently boiled whole chicken

two hard boiled eggs without the yoke...just two egg whites.... have almost never been a problem, and if i want to spice things up and am willing to roll the dice i mash them up in a little (little) mayo

i have almost never refluxed after eating one peeled apple..and then i eat nothing else for an hour.

ive been pretty successful eating one banana ( yes peeled )

if you can, as an experiment, keep making your meals smaller and smaller for two or three days, until you can find a volume of food that is so small you dont reflux it back up

wait at least two,,,or three hours between each of these very small meals

for me when i was in crisis last year, that meal was two spears of asparagus and two slices of tofu the size of matchbooks

i stayed with that for 3 days and then slowly added something here an there

stop all eating around 6pm...dont drink anything after 8pm, dont recline till 10pm and as said above sleep on a wedge or with the head board of bed elevated...extra pillows under your head will not work and in fact may make things worse...the entire torso and head must incline

best of good luck to you
mt

I found this and thought I would post it here This is just FYI.

Safe Foods for the Acid Reflux Diet

Food Group	Foods With Little Potential to Cause Heartburn
Fruit	• Apple, fresh • Apple, dried • Apple juice • Banana
Vegetables	• Baked potato • Broccoli • Cabbage • Carrots • Green beans • Peas
Meat	• Ground beef, extra-lean • Steak, London Broil • Chicken breast, skinless • Egg whites • Egg substitute • Fish, no added fat
Dairy	• Cheese, feta or goat • Cream cheese, fat-free • Sour cream, fat-free • Soy cheese, low-fat
Grains	• Bread, mult-grain or white • Cereal, bran or oatmeal • Corn bread • Graham crakers • Pretzels • Rice, brown or white • Rice cakes
Beverages	• Mineral water
Fats / Oils	• Salad dressing, low-fat
Sweets / Desserts	• cookie, fat-free • Jelly beans • Red licorice • Potato chips, baked

Great list, Kitt!

Hi Loz,
I think that everyone has different reflux triggers...what bothers one may not bother another. One thing for sure...if you've had trouble with a certain food, you'll probably always have that problem, so steer clear.

Here's a site that gives some general information about GERD triggers:
www.webmd.com/heartburn-gerd/features/heartburn-spot-your-personal-triggers

Good luck figuring it all out!
Take care,
Denise

I'm currently trialling coconut milk - you can buy it in a carton the same as you would soya milk. Doesn't taste strongly of coconut (to me anyway). It's not like the thick cream stuff you would use in cooking - it seems very similar to soya milk. I'd say it's worth a go if anyone is trying dairy free.

Not sure where you'd look for it in the States - in the UK it can be found in Waitrose!!

I think there would be a lot of calories in the cream, especially if used frequently.

Worryingly, this says coconut milk and cream are strongly inflammatory
http://nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3113/2
I'm not sure why. Olive oil comes up as strongly anti inflammatory, so it may be saturated fat issue.