Managing GERD: A Guide to Avoiding Spicy Foods & Dietary Triggers

Simple steps to avoid eating spicy foods to help ease GERD symptoms

Things You'll Need

• Lean meats
• Herbs
• Vegetables
• Fruit, except citrus
• Digestive enzymes
• GERD medication

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Instructions

• 1

  Start with small, easy to digest meals more frequently to keep the acid production low in your stomach, but stay away from pepper--any pepper.

• 2

  Include foods that are high in complex carbohydrates; such as rice, bread, grains, cornbread and cereal and pasta, except tomato-based sauces.

• 3

  Eat apples and bananas and vegetables such as potatoes, broccoli, cabbage, peas and carrots

• 4

  Eat lean meats with little or no fat and steamed fish, not fried,

• 5

  Take digestive enzymes to help ease acid production

• 6

  Take heartburn preventative medication, suggested by your doctor