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Other reflux triggers, was: Re: Problems with Protonix - Please read
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| Suddenly, without warning, Howard McCollister exclaimed (03-Aug-06 7:39 PM):
> "leushino" <leushinonospam@myway.com> wrote in message
> news:X_eAg.51$u6.37@fe05.lga...
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> It's always wise to be skeptical of medical advice one reads on the
> internet, and leushino should most definitely discuss his rather pronounced
> fears with his doctor.
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> What he is assuming, I now see belatedly, is that everyone with acid reflux
> will develop Barrett's esophagus, and that everyone with Barrett's will
> progress to cancer. That's not the case. Only about 10% of GERD patients
> develop Barrett's, and only about 10% of those will develop dysplasia and
> progress to cancer.
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> Even so, leushino should indeed be concerned - the incidence of esophageal
> cancer makes it only the 5th most common cancer, behind breast, lung,
> prostate, colon, but it's incidence is increasing at a rate faster than any
> other cancer. In fact there *are* about 20,000 new cases of esophageal
> cancer diagnosed every year.
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> Dr. Tom DeMeester has a slide in one of his talks that graphs the incidence
> of esophageal cancer year-by-year since about the mid-60's. On that slide,
> he has superimposed sales of anti-secretory medication (H2 blockers, then
> PPIs) over the same time frame. The graphs are identical. Now, that does not
> establish cause and effect, although our fledgling understanding of non-acid
> reflux is shedding a lot of light in that regard, but it's worth noting that
> a very similar graph of lung cancer incidence compared to smoking incidence
> was what led researchers to suspect the link between smoking and lung cancer
> back in the 50's.
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> HMc
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Thank you. I don't quite know how he got reflux=cancer... I didn't get
that from your post at all. ah well.
I was wondering. Here in Australia, there's a lot on the news about how
additives can cause problems - kids with ADD symptoms, for instance,
have been cured by removing certain food additives from their diets.
There's a lot of talk about a flavor enhancer called "635" that's
supposed to cause symptoms.
What I'm asking is, have you ever heard of additives causing reflux?
Seems if they can cause behavior changes and skin problems (among other
things), they could cause digestive issues as well.
I'm having some problem sorting out all my triggers, is why I ask.
Perhaps it's some additive that's causing some of my symptoms...
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