Use of Gastric Acid Suppressive Agents and the Risk of Community-Acquired Clostridium difficile associated disease. Let’s first say that C. difficile is not something you want to suffer through. The authors of this paper seemed a little surprised to find an almost tripling of the risk of acquiring this infection in patient on acid suppressive […]
First evidence of a possible association between gastric acid suppression during pregnancy and childhood asthma I cannot begin to stress enough just how vitally important digestion is. Any attempt to block digestion with acid suppressive drugs (with the exception of those in the middle of a bleeding ulcer episode) is going to have long term, […]
ACID BLOCKERS ACTUALLY PROMOTE ESOPHAGEAL CANCER? Shocking thought, huh? The long term use of acid suppressive therapy for GI complaints is something I have a major, major issue with. If someone has a bleeding ulcer, this class of drugs will likely save their lives (of course, the bleeding ulcer is likely cause by yet another […]
Reflux esophagitis in coeliac disease: beneficial effect of a gluten free diet. No need to make lifestyle changes like avoiding wheat–just take acid suppressive therapy. After all, acid is not important for digestion of proteins, activation of multiple digestive enzymes, activation of multiple anti-cancer compounds in foods, absorption of nutrients like B12, iron and certain […]
Hypochlorhydria, Inflammation, Parietal and G-Cell Populations This study has incredible implications. This is a mouse study, but if it holds true in humans (and if this concept ever makes it out of this journal…) it could blow a hole in one of the highest prescription classes in Western civilization. This article suggests that the normal […]
