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What Causes Abdominal Bloating And Burping While Suffering From Hiatal Hernia?

My 74 year old husband has a hiatal hernia but now has problems swallowing. He is bloating and burping constantly, he is on Pepcid 20 mg. He has had nothing but liquids for 5 days. He has ran a low grade fever.At night he has much mid uppergastric pain and night sweats. He seems to be better in the day time. I can t get him in to his GI Dr. until next week. What do we need to do?
Tue, 5 Jun 2018
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Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice.

You should consult your doctor for routine investigations. However, at the moment you can benefit from doing the following:

1- Avoid eating large meals and try to divide your meals into smaller ones. 2- Eat well-balanced and healthy diet.
3- Avoid eating before sleep.
4- Your doctor will prescribe proton pump inhibitors to relieve gastric reflux.
5- Treatment of the cause such as bacterial infection like Helicobacter pylori with triple therapy.

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What Causes Abdominal Bloating And Burping While Suffering From Hiatal Hernia?

Hello and Welcome to ‘Ask A Doctor’ service. I have reviewed your query and here is my advice. You should consult your doctor for routine investigations. However, at the moment you can benefit from doing the following: 1- Avoid eating large meals and try to divide your meals into smaller ones. 2- Eat well-balanced and healthy diet. 3- Avoid eating before sleep. 4- Your doctor will prescribe proton pump inhibitors to relieve gastric reflux. 5- Treatment of the cause such as bacterial infection like Helicobacter pylori with triple therapy. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.