Achalasia
Overview
In short, achalasia means that your gullet has lost its ability to move food along and the valve at the end of your gullet fails to open to allow food to pass into your stomach. As a result, food gets stuck in your gullet and is often brought back up.
Primarily a disorder of motility of the lower oesophageal or cardiac sphincter, achalasia can be secondary to other conditions, such as oesophageal cancer. In achalasia, the smooth muscle layer of the oesophagus has impaired peristalsis and failure of the sphincter to relax causes a functional stenosis or functional oesophageal stricture.
Achalasia tends to present itself in adult life between the ages of about 25 and 40 years with less than 5% occurring in children.
Starting at any time of life and usually coming on gradually, symptoms of achalasia are varied.
Dysphagia – a condition where the patient finds it difficult and sometimes painful to swallow food can occur in people with achalasia. This tends to get worse over a couple of years. This may cause the patient to bring back up undigested food shortly after meals and some of the vomited food may have been held up in your gullet for some time.
Bringing up undigested food can lead to choking and coughing fits, chest pain and heartburn.
Vomit may occasionally dribble out of the mouth and stain the pillow during the night. If this trickles down the windpipe, it can cause repeated chest infections and even pneumonia. You may also experience gradual but significant weight loss.
Unfortunately for sufferers, the cause of achalasia is unknown. Theories on causation invoke infection, heredity or an abnormality of the immune system that causes the body itself to damage the esophagus (autoimmune disease).
The esophagus contains both muscles and nerves; the nerves coordinate the relaxation and opening of the sphincters as well as the peristaltic waves in the body of the esophagus.
Achalasia has effects on both the muscles and nerves of the esophagus, but the condition’s effects on the nerves are believed to be the most important.
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People suffering from achalasia may find that if they avoid foods that cause reflux – such as chocolate, caffeine, tomatoes, citrus fruits and juices, and mint – their symptoms may be alleviated.
It is important to not add further toxicity to your system so try to adhere to the following:
- Do not consume any artificial sweeteners, such as Splenda, NutraSweet or Aspartame
- Do not consume high fructose corn syrup or mono-sodium glutamate.
- Do not drink any carbonated beverages.
- Avoid all fast food restaurants.
- Avoid all canned food.
- Eliminate conventional dairy products. The best dairy products are raw, unpasteurised and homogenised dairy from grass fed cows. If this is unavailable, then buy organic dairy.
- Avoid conventional beef. The best beef is organic grass fed beef.
www.grasslandbeef.com. The second best is organic meat; this includes beef, veal, lamb, chicken and turkey.
Supplements:
Many achalasia patients report that they notice improvements while taking vitamin B, so this may be worth a try.
- Take Vitamin D3 50,000-100,000 International Units a day for periods of 4 weeks at a time.
- Take an Omega 3 supplement:
Prescription and non-prescription medication:
What non-prescription and prescription drugs are you taking? Your non-prescription and prescription are partially the reason that you have this illness or disease – you need to get off these medications but do so only under the guidance of a licensed health care practitioner.
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- Try Hypnotherapy to relax the mind. Find a practitioner here.
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