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Back to Healthy Driven Blog Home. Spicy foods, foods that have a lot of acid like tomatoes and oranges , and coffee can make GERD symptoms worse in some people. If your symptoms are worse after you eat a certain food, you may want to stop eating that food to see if your symptoms get better. Do not smoke or chew tobacco. If you have GERD symptoms at night, raise the head of your bed 15 cm 6 in. Adding extra pillows does not work.
Avoid or reduce pressure on your stomach. Don't wear tight clothing around your middle. Lose weight if you need to. How can you modify your lifestyle to relieve symptoms of GERD? Quitting tobacco use If you smoke or chew tobacco, stop. Those who successfully quit using tobacco usually use a combination of strategies that may include: Professional counselling, either by telephone or in person.
The use of medicines, to help overcome the addiction to nicotine. Participation in a proven smoking cessation program. Having a support group of peers who are also quitting or who do not smoke. Credits Current as of: February 10, Top of the page. Current as of: February 10, Home About MyHealth. Other people with cancer have few or no known risk factors. Some risk factors are very well known. But there's ongoing research about risk factors for many types of cancer.
Some risk factors, such as family history, may not be in your control. But others may be things you can change. Knowing about risk factors can help you make choices that might help lower your risk. For instance, if an unhealthy diet is a risk factor, you may choose to eat healthy foods. If excess weight is a risk factor, you may decide to try to lose weight. Anyone can get esophageal cancer. But there are some factors that can increase your risk for it.
These include:. Older age. Your risk of esophageal cancer goes up as you get older. Men are far more likely to get this cancer than women. Tobacco use. The use of any form of tobacco increases your risk. This includes chewing tobacco, pipes, and cigars. Alcohol use. Drinking alcohol increases your risk. The more you drink, the higher your risk. The combination of drinking and smoking increases your risk much more than either one alone. Gastroesophageal reflux disease GERD or reflux happens when acid from your stomach comes up into your lower esophagus.
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