“I’m going to have so many pigs-in-blankets on the side of my dinner that I wouldn’t have had last year,” said Jeff Cohen. He had acid rising up from his stomach for so long it impaired normal muscle contractions in his gullet, but underwent a new surgical procedure.
A man who had heartburn that was so severe he would sometimes regurgitate his food has finally been cured with a “revolutionary” new surgical procedure.
Jeff Cohen had trouble swallowing more than a mouthful or two because acid had been rising up from his stomach for so long that it impaired the normal muscle contractions in his oesophagus, or gullet.