Acid Reflux Diet Helper
The foods listed can be helpful to reduce Acid Reflux / GERD symptoms for people with Gastroesophageal reflux disease.
Features include:
- Comprehensive list of foods and whether they are Good, Bad, Or Neutral for Acid Reflux and heartburn.
- Search by food and beverage.
- Lookup by food category.
- General Acid Reflux, Acid Reflux Diet and heartburn info, with common symptoms such as heartburn, bad breath, dysphagia, vomiting as well as some common causes of acid reflux disease.
Why should you care about acid reflux disease?
While acid reflux is a fairly common disease and some of the symptoms such as bad breath, dysphagia, and chest pain may seem mild, GERD can have some serious long term complications such as wearing away of the teeth, esophagitis, esophageal strictures, and Barrett's esophagus.
About GERD:
Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), also known as acid reflux, or chronic heartburn, is a long term condition where stomach contents come back up into the esophagus resulting in either symptoms or complications.
Risk factors include obesity, pregnancy, smoking, hiatus hernia, and taking certain medicines. Medications involved include antihistamines, calcium channel blockers, antidepressants, and sleeping medication. It is due to poor closure of the lower esophageal sphincter (the junction between the stomach and the esophagus). Diagnosis among those who do not improve with simpler measures may involve gastroscopy, upper GI series, esophageal pH monitoring, or esophageal manometry.
Treatment is typically via lifestyle changes, medications, and sometimes surgery. Lifestyle changes include not lying down for three hours after eating, losing weight, avoiding certain foods, and stopping smoking. Medications include antacid, H2 receptor blockers, proton pump inhibitors, and prokinetics.
remedies: chewing gum, licorice, aloe, slippery elm, apple cider vinegar
causes: alcohol, chocolate, fried foods (e.g. french fries), mint, onions, garlic, tomatoes
DISCLAIMER:
We do not perform any testing ourselves. All compiled data should be used as guidelines not as basis of fact. Consult your physician before beginning any new diet. This general information is not intended to diagnose any medical condition or to replace the advice of your healthcare professional.
Category : Health & Fitness
Reviews (29)
I consider it a really great app. It's nice to have it on hand for a quick search when you're in the grocery store and try to sort things while dealing with acid reflux. Plus it is really great that they continue to update it and give the option to ask for requests for the future list. One thing I hope they'll add in the future is ingredients as well. I constantly look at the list of ingredients for everything, and I'm always nervous with things like malic, folic and ascorbic acid.
This makes absolutely no sense to have on subscription and the lifetime cost is an exorbitant $34.99. It's just a searchable list. You could easily just convert this into a spreadsheet. Obviously a lot of apps like this are being created just to prey on people's problems as opposed to actually helping.
I purchased premium but there seems to be little to no value. The app acknowledges that I am now premium but nothing appears to have changed. It does not allow me to enter data in the my experience section. It just displays the top 5 best and worst foods based on others feedback.
This app is useless. Only gives a list of a list of items OK, avoid and remedy to eat (something easily googled). The other features, such as adding notes to a certain ingredients, adding ingredients, and others, are premium features. Simply USELESS.
Not anything I didn't know already once I paid for premium. I was under the impression it would be a diary I could log my trigger foods and tailor my diet. The ingredients aren't elaborate enough it's quite broad. It's basically a paid list on subscription its not worth it at all. Subscription is pointless.
It's extremely useful and user-friendly!! I would recommend it 200%. It has made my life more simple. Suggestion? Maybe trying to make it more accessible for speakers of other languages. You can start with Spanish, for example.
I have GERD, and relatively my body rejects many foods, and this app is PERFECT for helping me know which foods I should have and shouldn't have, I hated having to experience my body disliking and rejecting the food for myself, but with this app I no longer have to try things and deal with the consequences, with a click of a button I can see if it'll cause my body to react or not!! And it even lets you know which foods are remedies! Overall this app is great and can really come in hand😁
I wish there was a way to mark that coughing was a symptom and food was a trigger even if you're not lying down or moving too much. Otherwise the free portion of the app is pretty good.
Listed as free, but the helpful features require that you purchase their premium version. Very misleading. Does not have many common foods in the library.
First time I see an app without a settings menu, I had to uninstall right away, it doesn't let you remove the big vibration when you do anything in this app. VERY annoying.
Great app, however I would have given you $3 - $4 for a permanent unlock with no ads. But $69 for lifetime access ! Someone thinks too highly of their glorified list displayer. Let me just burrow your JSON db from GitHub and I'll create my own free version.
I love this app! I use it to make my shopping list. I never knew what foods to eat for my severe acid reflux and this really helps!
Free version let's you check to see if a food might cause you issues and what might be ok. Helpful.
Quite good but needs a lot more items to be listed. How about a barcode reader so can check items when in supermarket?
Good so far! Very helpful. Would be more helpful is you could look things up by category.
Nice list of foods that are safe/unsafe to eat. The more people using the app, the better it will be. Get it and share your knowledge.
More than five starts. I was eating mayonnaise a lot and suffering when I came to this app I got to know a lot of things which were troubling me without knowing. I can't thank enough for building this app.
Paid version crashes on open. Worthless. Save your money, avoid this app.
So far very poor choices. You can't put in ground beef, just fried meat. And you can only enter meds in the premium version.
Good app. Works well. Need more foods to be included though
I just think it would be cool if we could see other peoples experiences with food items not just ones to note to self like it could give us more of an idea
there are still alot of foods missing on this app. Turnips & Leeks just to mention a few.
You need to upgrade without upgrading to premium you get a list of foods, that's it, which You can Google
Not only a great app based off github but sources public opinion and experience. Awesome.
You need to add more foods, and Dairy free and gluten free, could be the best app if you make improvements for Gerd and LPR suffers
a good helpful app for the basic foods and drinks.
The search option for every food item is great
Great app for GERD sufferers, but I wish they add more foods.
Has no way of adding foods or symptoms that aren't on the list. When I click to see the details of a specific entry in the past the severity level shows 0. It would be helpful if the severity level shows on the calander instead of having to click the day and then the individual entry.