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Suggest Treatment For Spasm In Stomach With Hiatal Hernia
66 year old male 130 pounds has had a mild hiatal hernia for years. Getting over a bad case of bronchitis and walking pneumonia...on antibiotics for two weeks....have no pain or acid, but sometimes after eating my hernia feels like a spasm and I need to cough. After about 10 minutes it goes away.
Noted the history and understood the concerns. Well the hernia can not really cause such symptoms as it is located at the lower end of esophagus hence can not cause coughing on eating. Yes, the cause can be resolving walking pneumonia and bronchitis under treatment that your respiratory system gets very much sensitive to smell. I would advise you the following in such a situation: Continue the treatment for bronchitis with pneumonia. Avoid all the foods and beverages that cause you the present symptoms that you have mentioned. Take steam inhalations. Take a PPI too along with Domperidone for the possible reflux as you have hiatal hernia and severe coughing or any breathing trouble can cause bronchospasm, hernia, breathlessness and so on.
Take Care
Regards Dr. T Chandrakant, General Surgeon
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Suggest Treatment For Spasm In Stomach With Hiatal Hernia
Hi Thanks for your query. Noted the history and understood the concerns. Well the hernia can not really cause such symptoms as it is located at the lower end of esophagus hence can not cause coughing on eating. Yes, the cause can be resolving walking pneumonia and bronchitis under treatment that your respiratory system gets very much sensitive to smell. I would advise you the following in such a situation: Continue the treatment for bronchitis with pneumonia. Avoid all the foods and beverages that cause you the present symptoms that you have mentioned. Take steam inhalations. Take a PPI too along with Domperidone for the possible reflux as you have hiatal hernia and severe coughing or any breathing trouble can cause bronchospasm, hernia, breathlessness and so on. Take Care Regards Dr. T Chandrakant, General Surgeon