Back in the fall of 2009, Dr. Chen had an endoscopy with a surgeon. The diagnosis was the acid reflux with Barret esophagus, and mild gastritis. The treatment was proton pump inhibitor, anti-acids, and avoid all acidic food. Well, I have being doing exactly like that for the last seven months, and the symptoms do not go away.
On Feb 2, 2010, Dr. Chen had another endoscopy; this time was with a GI specialist. The diagnosis was the severe gastritis over the duodenum area. The specialist gave me a new medicine, Sucrafate which is a medicine to treat ulcer. This medicine requires stomach acid to form a protective layer over the stomach lining. The medicine would not work if there is no acid in the stomach.
So, at this moment, Dr. Chen needs to juggle between acid food, alkaline food, medicine that needs acids, and medicine that reduces acids. It is quite a mind-puzzling management.
I will report to you how does the new treatment go.
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