NUTRITION
CLINICAL NUTRITION
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Avoid wearing tight fitting clothes on abdomen.
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Avoid eating 2 hours before lying down
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Weight loss helps, puts less pressure on abdomen
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Avoid trigger foods (citrus, spicy, carbonation)
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Avoid items that relax esophageal spinchter (fatty foods, peppermint, smoking, chocolate, caffeine, alcohol)
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Detailed explanation-1: -Alcohol. Caffeine. Carbonated beverages. Chocolate. Tomatoes and tomato-based foods. Garlic. Mint. Onions. More items
Detailed explanation-2: -DO NOT take peppermint or drink peppermint tea if you have gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD–a condition where stomach acids back up into the esophagus), or hiatal hernia. Peppermint can relax the sphincter between the stomach and esophagus, allowing stomach acids to flow back into the esophagus.
Detailed explanation-3: -Gastroesophageal reflux disease usually causes heartburn, as well as respiratory and digestive symptoms. Doctors often recommend that people with this common illness avoid drinking caffeine.
Detailed explanation-4: -Peppermint tea is effective at relaxing the stomach muscles and thus aiding digestion, but it also relaxes the oesophageal sphincter, enabling further acid back up into the oesophagus. So it is, in fact, one of the worst things you can drink if you do suffer from GERD.