- Eat three small meals and three snacks evenly spaced throughout the day.
- Avoid long periods of fasting or overeating.
- Eat slowly and chew food well.
- Be relaxed at mealtime
- Sit up while eating and for 1 hour afterward
- Avoid eating within 3 hours before bedtime. Bedtime snacks can cause gastric acid secretion during the night.
- Eat low fat foods
- Limit caffeinated foods and beverages, citrus and tomato products, and chocolate.
- Include a good source of protein (milk, meat, egg, cheese, etc) at each meal and snack
- Antacids should be taken in the prescribed dose, 30 to 60 minutes before or 3 hours after meals.
- Milk and cream feedings should not be used as antacid therapy.
- Although milk protein has an initial neutralizing effect on gastric acid, it is also a very potent stimulator.
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