The Fire Inside: Extinguishing Heartburn and Related Symptoms - Hardcover

Wolfe, M. Michael; Nesi, Thomas J.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393038637 ISBN 13: 9780393038637

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1996

Synopsis

A guide to treating and preventing the common medical problem of acid reflux examines a wide range of therapies--from simple diet changes to complete medical regimens--that can eliminate the problem

About this title

About the Author:

Thomas Nesi is president of TJN Communications.

From Booklist:

With the writing help of Nesi, gastroenterologist Wolfe makes this single-illness monograph most engrossing. Its subject is acid reflux, the discharge of stomach acid back into the esophagus and adjacent organs, including lungs and larynx. Its most famous symptom is heartburn, but, Wolfe and other physicians have discovered, it can cause hoarseness and loss of voice, chronic cough and wheezing, the feeling of "lump in the throat," severe chest pains easily mistaken for heart attack, and even, when the acid has sufficiently damaged affected organs, fatally cancerous ulcers. The past 30 years have seen enormous strides in drug treatment of acid reflux, which Wolfe and Nesi reveal as they tell the history of heartburn as a medical phenomenon and the diagnostic mistakes and useless or harmful treatments it has spawned during its long, misleading career. Nowadays, a single drug taken in appropriate dosage can completely alleviate the worst cases of the malady, and a simple combination can end most lesser ones. Good news well told. Ray Olson

About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0393038637
• ISBN 13: 9780393038637
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192