My Family Doctor
A family practitioner for over 25 years, Dr. Hubbard knows the medical world inside and out. Frustrated by managed care and the lack of time doctors were able to spend educating patients, he launched James Hubbard's My Family Doctor: The Magazine That Makes Housecalls, a national magazine written by health care practitioners that is his answer to hurried doctor visits, conflicting medical studies, and complicated treatment options.
Attack of the NERD!
The most common type of heartburn
NERD is weird.
"NERD" is the aren’t-scientists-funny acronym for the most common kind of heartburn: nonerosive esophageal disease. And this type of GERD is not like what you’d expect.
In this feature article, witty gastroenterologist Patricia Raymond offers a fun-to-read guide to this not-fun disease. If you have ongoing heartburn that doesn't respond to acid reflux medications, NERD may be your culprit. Here are a few unexpected characteristics you’ll read about:
- Though it’s painful, NERD doesn’t leave erosions or ulcers in your esophagus.
- You may have pain with relatively little acid.
- That little flap on top of your stomach that keeps acid down? It probably works just fine.
Do you have heartburn? Have you seen a doctor about it? What’s helped you?
By Leigh Ann Otte
Managing Editor
My Family Doctor Blog
[Originally posted April 27, 2010, James Hubbard’s My Family Doctor Web site.]
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