\r\n \r\n Modern diet for the most part. Especially fried foods, chocolate, red wine and cheap tomato products. I have a mild version of it, but all I have to do is avoid too much pizza or any pizza hut pizza.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Moxsum even some medication\'s can cause reflux, and also too much alchohol and rich foods, and its best not to go to bed on a full stomach.
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\r\n \r\n Occassional acid reflux is nothing to worry about. It happens to the best of us once in a while
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\nIf it is chronic there are two main causes. The first and most common is caused by poor digestion because there is not enough stomach and or digestive enzymes to digest properly. Sometimes this condition is caused by an excess of the wrong kinds of microbes in the stomach. Bloating in the stomach forces the sphincter open for acids to rise.
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\r\n \r\n When I was heavier things such as alcohol and certain food would cause it, but being thin I never get hearburn. But I can remember being really thin as a child and if I ate dinner and laid down right away that I would get heartburn. I didn\'t know what it was, but I asked my mother.
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\nIf I get hearburn once a year now it\'s rare, but when I had some excess weight I would get it from having too many beers, pants that I probably didn\'t fit into and things like apple juice. I had it often when I didn\'t take as good of care of myself as I do now.
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\r\n \r\n There is no one single cause, it is a combination of long term poor diet, prescription drugs including antibiotics, coffee, alcohol,simple carbs, soda or any product containing high fructose corn syrup, stress, lack of sleep, or being vitamin deficient.
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