Whew! It's good to be back. Back to good health. The acid reflux syndrome ailment had been hogging me for the past two weeks and what a relief. Finally I'm able to get rid of it but not without going through the worst suffering in my health.

Do you know what it liked having to hiccup almost 80% of your wake up time? Believed me, you wouldn't want to have had such an experience. Doing some post mortem and recall what might have caused the GERD that I was having, I guessed age has caught up with me. It seems that I can't afford to have the "luxury" of drinking a glass of cold milk tea everyday. My aged stomach gave me the signal that it no longer able to tolerate such a strong cleansing drink. I also found out that caffeinated beveraged drinks such as tea and coffee is one of the causes of getting acid reflux syndromes such as heartburn, sore throat, hiccups and chest pain. Others include eating at irregular time, eating too much, smoking and drinking alcohol.

During these past few days, I did eat porridge which smoothen the flow of food into my stomach. I don't know whether it applied to me only or to others as well that I can't take garlic during these times. The garlic that was added in to my porridge produced a burning sensation in my stomach and further encourage more hiccups. And also during these times, I only ate half of what I normally eat. If not, those extra food would be channeled out through my mouth by burping.

The chinese mixture medicine which I took in the past three days did its job in stopping my hiccups. Together with the food intake practices I mentioned above, I have completely stopped vomiting food out of my mouth today. No more hiccups, what's a joy.  No more  tiny bits of undigested food appearing from my mouth. Disgusting? Yes, but I would say the torturing effect is what I concerned.

I guess the chinese medicine provides some healing properties to my "injured" stomach while the western medicines (mostly antacids) provide fast relief in putting my hiccups problems away. From now onwards, I would also take on less cold and iced drinks and also my one glass of iced milk tea a day would be a thing of the past. Maybe a glass of milk tea a week wouldn't do any harm!