GERD (Acid Reflux, Laryngopharyngeal Reflux (LPR), Silent reflux) and opioids.
Hi friends we are going to talk today about long-term opioid use and their effect on our digestive tract and what you can do to help or to treat the problem this is a picture that shows that possible side effects of opioid on our digestive tract in esophagus it could be acid reflux in the stomach nausea small intestine it could be bloating and so on and in
Large intestine it could be constipation the treatment will start with number one and it’s the most important if you can cut down on opioid use that will be a great help so suppose you have low back pain then the possibility is create a plan for weight loss and start to implement the plan number two you can try acupuncture you can do cupping you can try yoga
You can try all kinds of topical creams and oils such as cbd oil or topical topical analgesics also try the breathing exercise and incorporate non-steroid anti-inflammatory treatment in your plan then step number two write down the symptoms that you have suppose the side effect of opioid is constipation oil is pulled and acid reflex identify the organs that
Get affected let’s talk about the mechanism of effect of opioids on our digestive tract so when you have a food this is the mouth with the teeth and put the food here it still goes through the digestive tract esophagus drops into the stomach and then eventually goes into small and large intestine and out all of that happened physiologically within 48 hours
Opioids slow down everything so everything becomes very slow as a result stool will stay here for longer period of time as a result water from the digestive tract will get absorbed so water is more here in the bloodstream more into blood as a result still becomes hard everything is back up when that happened pathogenic bacteria that lives here in the small
And largest intestines start growing faster they love this environment as a result dysbiosis develops since back up a plus dysbiosis all that create inflammation in the small intestine and eventually inflammation will move into your stomach and will create gastritis gastritis here means that eventually inflammation will go through the lysophyll sphincter and
Up into esophagus and that’s where acid reflux happens so the everything when everything is back up that’s that’s the steps how acid reflex get created you have the symptoms now you identify the organs and now let’s start to treat so constipation means that large intestines get affected to do what to do take more food that has fibers cooked vegetables broccoli
Carrots brussels sprouts cauliflower drink more water between the meals take magnesium supplements oily stool means that eat the liver or pancreas get affected for the liver eat radish the black radish is the best for pancreatic enzymes they caramelize lipase and protease enzymes lipase is the one that will help this oily stool take probiotic and prebiotic do it
For several several weeks see how fire will progress with your acid reflux suppose you improve your asthma flex 60 70 80 percent then you decided okay that’s that’s how far i’ve got now i’m ready to deal with acid reflux keep in mind that acid reflex is not due to low production of hydrochloric acid it’s all due to inflammation so in that at that time you need
To protect your esophagus take a slippery elm and marshmallow routine and decrease inflammation take aloe vera all the information here in my slides came from united european journal of gastroenterologists intro if you have any questions ask me here i have a good uh course that comes with free coaching session please do so subscribe ask me questions and for
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GERD (Acid Reflux, Laryngopharyngeal Reflux (LPR), Silent reflux) and opioids. By Acid Reflux and GERD
