gastro ./ hepato gastroenterology
New Information On Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease Or Acid Reflux
By Groshan Fabiola
Gastroesophageal reflux also known as acid reflux or heartburn is a condition in which the contents of the stomach flow back into esophagus causing the lower part of the esophagus to become inflamed and painful and the condition in which this occures is known as reflux esophagitis.
Those who are usually affected by gastroesophageal reflux are those that are obese or have a hiatal hernia or scleroderma and in pregnancy.
The exact cause is the disfunction of the the lower esophageal sphincter, the lower esophageal sphincter opens and let the stomach acid contents to reflux. If you are eating very large meals, lying down within two to three hours of eating, and taking certain drugs including diazepam, meperidine, theophylline, morphine, prostaglandins, calcium channel blockers, nitrate heart medications, and anticholinergic and adrenergic drugs you are susceptible of developing gastroesophageal reflux. Alcohol, nicotine and caffeine aggravate the acid reflux.
Symptoms
One of the symptoms in acid reflux is heartburn, others are: painful swallowing, cramping, excessive salivation, coughing, shortness of breath, sore throat. Those symptoms are relieved when you adopt a n orthostatic position. You may also have a bitter taste in your mouth and can lead to reflux esophagitis, esophageal ulcer and Barrett’s syndrome which can further develop esophageal cancer.
Diagnostic
A gastroenterologist will perform some tests x-rays and barium examination, esophagoscopy, biopsy examination, manometry of the esophagus, the Bernstein test which deals with the level of acidity in the esophagus. Esophagus has an important role in moving the food down in the stomach with the aid of muscle contractions, at the lower end there is a specialized
A small update on my spam situation
The topic of greylisting came up on Hacker News
and it reminded me?it's been eight years since I last checked my greylist daemon.
Well,
it still easily blocks 50% of the spam sent my way.
Of the remaining spam that does get through,
a majority of it is addressed towards my registrar email address.
Years ago when I switched away from Network Solutions the first time,
I created a new email address for Doster,
but that was long before registrars even started offering redacted whois information for a price
(and now it's pretty much done for free),
so my registrar email address got picked up by every spammer everywhere.
But that was then,
this is now,
and when I switched away from Network Solutions for the second time
(since they ultimately bought Dotster),
I created a new email address for Porkbun.
The difference is that now,
such information is automatically redacted from general whois information so it shouldn't be spammed.
So it was a few days ago I finally got around to deleting my old registrar email address.
And guess what?
That ?majority of spam? sent to my old registrar address was over 90% of the spam that got through the greylisting daemon.
My email has been very quiet since.
And I also no longer have to deal with emails from Network Polutions asking why I'm no longer paying them money,
and would I mind taking a survey to see how they could imprive their business.
No,
I'd rather not.
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Why does the Electoral College exist?
The Electoral College in the U.S. is a controversial aspect of electing the President,
but not many people understand why it was done.
That's why I find ?Why does the Electoral College exist?? video so good?it goes into the history of why the Founding Fathers picked such a convoluted scheme to elect the President
(and I did not know that direct election by the population was on the table).
It basically comes down to the Founding Fathers distruct in direct democracy and the fear of large population states running roughshod over less populated states.
Also,
while democratic institutions have been around for a about two thousand years,
it had never been done at a country level
(cities, yes. Countries, not so much).
As such,
the Founding Fathers were treading into uncharted territory and given what they knew at the time,
I don't think they did all that bad.
It's worth the watch.
Heck, the entire Premodernist channel is worth watching.
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I hope this isn't an omen for the year that just started
I start the car up,
and immedately I'm alerted to low presure in the front left tire?it's only 27psi
(or 1.9kgf/cm2 for those of you deficient in the Imperial System of measure and weights)
when it normally should be 35psi (2.5kgf/cm2).
No problem, I thought.
I'll just haul out the air compressor.
Easier said than done
(have to move the lawn mower to reach the tire valve attactment,
and I have to move several miscellaneous items to extract the compressor unit,
then find an extension chord, etc.)
but I finally had it set up,
turned on,
and started to inflate the tire.
After several moments,
the tire pressure was lower than it was.
Maybe I'm not getting getting a good seal on the tire air valve, I thought.
I tried several times and ? the tire pressure is now even lower.
I kept at it until the tire got to 13psi (0.9kgf/cm2).
I then decided to try another tire.
It should surprise no one that doing the same thing and expecting different results did not in fact result in different results.
Now I had two low tires.
Maybe it's something to do with the compressor, I thought.
I examine the unit,
and indeed,
it was something to do with the unit?I had forgotten to close a valve on the bottom of the unit.
All the air it was trying to compress was blowing out the valve used to empty the compressed air from the unit when you're done with it.
I use the compressor unit enough to know how to use it to reinflate my tires,
but not enough to remember a valve that needs to be closed before it'll work properly.
Sigh.
Welcome to the New Year everybody!
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Despite it being a new year, the scams will never stop coming
The clock struck midnight,
the Times Square ball fell,
and scams are still a thing in this year of 2026.
Bunny has now received the same text message twice:
Florida Buraeu of Motor Vehicles Final Notice:
According to our records,
the traffic violation associated with your account remains unresolved.
This is a final reminder that payment has not been received.
In accordance with Florida Code Title 9 Motor Vehicles § 9?18?2?7,
if full payment is not submitted by January 1, 2026,
the following enforcement actions will be initiated:
- Official violation recorded with the Florida FLHSMV
- Revocation of vehicle registration effecitive January 2, 2026
- Suspension of driver's license for a minimum of 30 days
- Referral of the outstanding debt to a collections agency,
with an additional fee of up to 35%
- Potential legal proceedings and adverse credit reporting
To avoid these penalties,
please settle your payment immedately through our official payment portal:
https://flhsmv.govsar.help?var=XXXXXXXXXX
The first time was,
I don't know,
earlier this month.
I thought then,
and I still think it now,
that any ?official notification? would come through the U.S. Postal Service
(aka ?snail mail?)
than a vague text message.
Also,
by the time a debt hits the collection agencies,
the organization with the debt has already written it off and sold the debt to said collection agencies,
and I somehow don't think government organizations would sell off debt to collection agencies.
Why would they?
They have the means
(read: guns)
to collect if they really wanted to.
Anyway,
a search later,
and I found this alert from the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles about this scam,
and they mention the fact they will never send such a notice via text message,
but will instead use snail mail.
So Happy New Year everybody!
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?I can't dance, I can't relate, only thing about me is the way I confabulate!?
Mark and I were talking about Roko's dancing basilisk and he suggested I feed it my 6809 ANS Forth implementation,
on the assumption that no one has fed an assembly-based project through it.
Before feeding it that one though,
I decided to try a simpler program,
my 6809 disassembler written in 6809 assembly code and ? well ? I'm not sure if anything is terribly wrong with it because it's just the source code in prose,
and repetative prose at that.
But it's a single 1,200 line file?way smaller than mod_blog and a09.
Makes sense that it's probably okay,
if boringly repetitious.
I then ran it over my ANS Forth implementation and ? wow ? it can't count to save its life.
None of the line counts are accurate in that table,
and the line count for the source file is way out of line.
No,
the source file isn't 30,000+ lines of code!
Yes,
it's sizable,
at 12,000 lines,
but it's not 30,000+.
But it does lead me to believe that any project that is close to,
or over,
10,000 lines of code will have errors in the generated ?documentation.?
The other sizable error I found before falling asleep is the main runtime routine isn't DOCOL
(which is a name used by a lot of 8-bit Forth implementations)
but forth_core_colon.runtime.
If there are other errors,
I don't know.
I couldn't make myself to through more of its ?documentation.?
Ugh.
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A decision on semantic versioning
I finally decided on version 8.0.8 for CGILib.
The main rational?I think I'm the only one using this,
and to me,
this is a bug fix,
and it doesn't change the intended API at all.
So version 8.0.8 it is!
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muscle called the lower esophageal sphincter that is tight until the food is above it, then it relaxes to let pass the food and fluids.
This way acids, enzymes and other substances from the stomach do not come up in the esophagus to damage the tissue. It is important to drink milk until the esophagus has healed and you have no more acid reflux. There are some easy to make recipes that may be used during the period of recovery. Proton inhibitors drugs only mask the symptoms, so what I truly recommend are natural and healthy recipes. Acid reflux can be healed with herbs, meditation, exercise and diet, health store items.
Not chewing food properly and eating wrong foods determine the condition known as: esophageal reflux disease. In this condition the esophagus is damaged and the lower esophageal sphincter is weakened, the first thing to do in the healing of the esophageal reflux disease is to cure the esophagus.
The best solution is to continue treatment even if the symptoms are relieved, so as the condition will not return. Article Source: http://www.articlemap.com For more resources about acid reflux or especially about acid reflux diet please click this link www.acid-reflux-info-guide.com/acid-reflux-diet.htm
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