The Fire Inside: Extinguishing Heartburn and Related Symptoms [Hardcover]

M. Michael Wolfe (Author), Thomas J. Nesi (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1996

Part medical mystery, part medical history, this is the first book for the general public about treating and preventing one of the most widespread medical problems: acid reflux, whose prime symptom is heartburn. Using numerous patient examples to humanize key medical information, this book will help raise the consciousness of the myriad patients who consider heartburn a "by-product of modern life".

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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

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc; 1 edition (February 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0393038637
• ISBN-13: 978-0393038637
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #978,831 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Fire Inside - Help For Sufferers, January 5, 2000

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James L. Fisher (Bel Air, MD) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Fire Inside: Extinguishing Heartburn and Related Symptoms (Hardcover)

This book can be a major help for those who suffer from heartburn and acid reflux disease. It covers the causes, symptoms, available treatments, and strategies for living with reflux disease.

Clear explanations are provided are provided for the problems that you suffer from, and the side effects such as chronic bronchitis. The book also covers tactics for living with reflux.