I get recurrent acidity, burping, and gas even after medications. Why?

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I can imagine the level of your frustrations, especially for such recurring symptoms of acidity and burping.

You see the medications you are taking, like Pan D (Pantoprazole) and Cyra D (Rabeprazole). Both of these medications are acid suppressant medications. However, the symptoms you mention are partly defined by acidity and partly defined by excessive gas production within the bowel. So these medications can help settle acidity but would not improve your symptoms of excessive bloating and burping.

Secondly, these are just a symptomatic treatment and would not correct the underlying cause. You probably have nothing in terms of investigations to detect the underlying reason for it. I hope you got my point.

So I would give you some medications to help improve your gas, bloating, and burping and provide an antibiotic course for three weeks to treat the underlying mechanism of excessive gas production, which is abnormal microbiota. The microbiota are the microorganism present otherwise harmlessly within every human's gut (bowel). However, their composition changes towards more bad gas-producing bacteria vs. good non-gas producing bacteria.

I recommend you to start tablet Rifaximin 200 mg (antibiotic) thrice daily for three weeks. This is an antibiotic that is reasonably safe and works only in the human bowel, not outside this. Plus tablet Levosulpiride 75 mg (antipsychotic) half an hour before meals twice daily for three weeks time.

For acidity, I suggest you stop Pan D and Cyra D for a week while you can continue with syrup Gaviscon 20 ml (antacid) four times daily half an hour after meals and before bedtime for one week.

At the end of one week, get yourself tested for stool for H.pylori antigen. This will confirm if you are infected with this bug, which produces excessive acidity within the stomach. Once you give the stool sample for this, you then can start capsule Esomeprazole 40 mg (proton pump inhibitor) half an hour before meals or before breakfast once daily.

I would like to see you in a week's time after you get your stool test reports. I also advise you to get a few more tests. Just a thorough evaluation, making sure that we are not missing any associated condition.

I hope this helps.

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