GERD and Citrus Fruits

Ive been drinking 3 glasses of water on an empty stomach first thing in the morning. Then, after about 45 minutes, I eat fresh fruits, like bananas. Sometimes I try citrus fruits like cantalope.

I also try to squeeze some fresh lemon on the water I use for my morning water therapy. All these seem to do me good, despite my GERD. I'm often having trouble with it when there's gas in my tummy after eating some food. But not the fruits I eat in the morning.

A nutrition expert I heard on the radio said fresh fruits, if eaten immediately upon opening, actually give you alkaline, not acid. So, if you take an orange or squeeze in some fresh lemon to your water, it gives you non-acidic Vitamin C.

GERD gives me some problems, though manageable, after I eat lunch or supper. I feel gas rising up from my tummy and seem to interrupt with my thyroid function. Some rare times this triggers heart palpitations--or so my doctor theorized when he saw that my t3 t4 tsh blood tests were all normal. He thinks that my post nasal drip and GERD act together to give me some funny sensations in my thyroid. So he urges me to have a thyroid scan.

But my doc doesn't see me as a typical hyper or hypo thyroid case. But he says I better double check with a thyroid scan. My other doc says she suspects thyroiditis.

But so far, the fresh fruits have been giving me nothing but health refreshments! I'm crazy about fruits, especially eating them in the morning and in the afternoon. My docs say there's absolutely no problem with this.

By the way, if you have GERD, refrain from eating anything with preservatives and artificial colors---especially powdered juices, juices in bottles or cans (no matter if they are "fruit" juices), and softdrinks.

What do I do when I have GERD? I walk around for a while after eating and wait till I burp. And I don't eat too much each meal. Better is eating a little now and then than a full meal pronto.