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What types of medications are used to treat GERD?

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Some of the digestion of food occurs in the pancreas.
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Medications that suppress gastric acid secretion help the healing process by reducing the damaging effects of acid on esophageal tissue. Proton-pump inhibitors are the most effective of the antisecretory agents and are used both for rapid healing of esophagitis and as a maintenance treatment. Other antisecretory drugs include histamine-2 receptor blockers (often referred to as H2 blockers) and antacids, which neutralize gastric acid. Antacids are frequently used to relieve occasional heartburn, but they are not necessarily appropriate for GERD because they have only short-term effects and are ineffective for healing esophagitis.

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