healthWatch:Fixing GERD

healthWatch:Fixing GERD

healthWatch:Fixing GERD

TOWSON, Md. (Ivanhoe Newswire) - Acid reflux disease, a condition commonly known as "GERD", affects about one-third of Americans. It can cause pain, coughing, heartburn and can even lead to cancer. Now, a simple procedure may fix GERD for good.


"It would happen in the morning. It would happen after I ate. It would happen at night, it was, and it just progressively got worse and worse and worse." She told Ivanhoe.

Dr. Mark Noar of the Endoscopic Microsurgery Associates in Townson, Md. told her about a procedure to fix GERD for good. It's called the Stretta procedure. Patients are sedated while doctors insert a catheter down the throat and deliver radiofrequency energy to stimulate tissue and strengthen muscles.

"The sphincter muscle gets thicker and stronger, so it won't open as easily." Dr. Noar told Ivanhoe.


Bob Davis had the Stretta procedure and is glad he did. "I reduced my medicine by three pills a day!" Davis told Ivanhoe.

Dickinson had it too and no longer has the symptoms of GERD. "It's something that's not a part of my life anymore." She said.



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