Life ExtensionEsophageal Guardian, alginic Acid, Potassium Bicarbonate, get Long-Lasting Relief from gastric Distress, Vegetarian, Non-GMO, Gluten-Free, 60 Vegetarian chewable Tablets

I would recommend this product.

funciona mejor que tums y otros anti acidos.

This works really well for me but the taste is horrible! I think I'm slowly adapting to the taste but it is bad! Just chew fast and swallow & follow with a lot of water. It's bitter & chalky but foamy and gets stuck in your teeth but it's worth it.

I have suffered from acid reflux for many years. I don't feel comfortable taking PPIs forever so I started looking for alternatives. I learned about alginates and saw there were a few choices for sale here so I bought this, Nutritist Refluxly, and Reflux Gourmet. I liked this Esophageal Guardian but I felt like it didn't have enough strength. It worked for a while then my reflux stared coming back after around 2 hours. I noticed it only has 80 mg of Calcium while Gaviscon's UK formulation has around 3x this amount. Most of the research papers on alginates were based on Gaviscon, but unfortunately the US version is different than the UK version. The US version only has alginate as a filler and not as a main ingredient. Gavison UK version worked great for me, but I was lucky to have a relative visiting the UK bring me back a bottle. Its just too expensive here, also it had some ingredients I didn't like such as saccharin and preservatives. If I had to rank the alginate products in order of effectiveness I would rank them as Nutritist Refluxly/Gaviscon UK (tie), Reflux Gourmet, then lastly Esophageal Guardian.

These are beyond disgusting!!! I made the mistake of thinking they would be like all the other chewables I've tried and use daily. NO. I popped them in my mouth and chewed...just once. That was enough to get the gaggable mess stuck in my teeth. I couldn't just spit it out. So, while gagging, I tried rinsing them down with water and trying to get the substance unstuck from up in my teeth crevices. Absolutely horrific experience and I came very close to puking. I think looking up at the ceiling and doing deep breathing is the only thing that saved me. These chewables are NASTY. The texture, the taste...the TEXTURE. I would avoid like the plague. I would keep these and try and swallow whole except the bottle specifically says not to do that. I'm hoping I can return these. They are too expensive to only use two.UPDATE: the website will not allow you to return these. Contact customer service via chat (you can have them call you, too) and the chat bot will process your refund. Which is good, because I had ordered two of these! I've never encountered a chewable as gross as these are. The description says they taste good. THEY. DO. NOT. You have been warned.

This tastes good and works well. I tried making my own Gaviscon UK version from recipes found on the web, but it made me gag so bad, tasted disgusting. These tablets are so much easier and taste way better.I’m trying to quit PPIs after 2 years daily use. These are helping with the acid rebound. I’m also taking famotadine 20mg 4x daily. It’s so hard to quit PPIs, even my PCP says it’s bad to take long term, but my GI doesn’t care. This is my 4th time trying to quit, but I never used any alginate or alginic acid products before. I found Dr Jamie Koufman’s blog and bought her books. Explains so much about acid reflux.Recommended!! Thank you.

This is a great alternative to Gaviscon Advance for LPR symptoms, and is available more easily in the USA. It contains the same active ingredient (alginate) in a large enough amount to be effective, and it tastes SO MUCH better than Gaviscon Advance. It also has different sweeteners to make the taste palatable (sugar alcohols like xylitol instead of Aspartame), so might be a better fit for some people.

I’m a doctor, and have had reflux despite lifestyle measures and a mattress elevator. My wife has grade 3 of 4 erosive esophagitis that is asymptomatic and is on a chronic PPI. After reading a nice review article in NEJM in October, 2022 that briefly mentioned alginates as an option for reflux, I spent 6 hours reviewing the literature on alginates in reflux. The literature is fairly sparse, though there is evidence of symptomatic improvement in short term (14 day) studies vs. PPIs. However, I don’t see the kind of data I’d like to see, studies showing improvement of esophageal tissue appearance on endoscopy with long term use. Furthermore, a study using pH probes in the esophagus showed that the alginate does not prevent the acid from the stomach from getting into the esophagus. It was just associated with less reflux symptoms for unclear reasons, perhaps because the alginate acts as a protectant.In that case, a prescription medication that is better tolerated than alginate and is approved to aid healing of ulcers of the stomach and small intestine, sucrafate, is a consideration. It does not have an FDA indication for treating reflux or esophagitis, but a 1987 study showed sucrafate to be effective in treating symptoms and improving endoscopy findings in those with esophagitis (Endoscopy showed improvement in 53 percent of patients and healing of esophagitis in 31 percent after sucralfate treatment. With cimetidine, improvement was seen in 67 percent and healing occurred in 14 percent.)The problem with the most used agents, H2 blockers and the more effective PPIs is that they reduce stomach acid in the refluxed material, but other bad stuff like enzymes, etc. in gastric fluid can still injure the esophagus and can cause tissue irritation. Besides the reflux symptoms, over time other problems can develop like esophageal strictures, pre-cancerous tissue changes, and even esophageal cancer..I was hoping that this agent would be a good option with low side effects to take in addition to a PPI and life style changes for my wife and I to prevent reflux effects on the esophagus, larynx, and pharynx for me and to reduce the esophagitis for my wife. Unfortunately, after taking just 1 of the 2 recommended tabs after dinner last night, neither my wife or I are going to be able to tolerate the side effects. The taste wasn’t bad at all, very tolerable. The slight gel on the teeth was expected and not bad. For us, it’s the feeling of fullness provoked by the foam raft and gassiness that is going to prevent long term use. I was unable to sleep until 1AM due to the feeling that I’d had Thanksgiving dinner. There has also been significant gassiness, both major burping and farting presumably due to the bicarbonate giving off CO2 and/or the alginate itself. I am still having the gassiness 27 hours after a single pill and burps have an unusual smell/taste that I assume is from the seaweed from which the alginate is produced. Not a good taste/smell. I also had diarrhea in the night and at work, but that resolved within 14 hours of the dose.The side effects are bad enough that i am unwilling to try taking this multiple days in a row to see if they subside. My problem isn’t bad enough, and the data isn’t there to support using it over more tolerable agents and lifestyle interventions.I salute the manufacturer for trying to bring a product to market that was no longer offered in the US, Gaviscon original. The dose of alginate at 500 mg per pill (1000 mg/d recommended), is a decent dose compared to Gaviscon, and some formulations of Gaviscon in Europe and elsewhere have only 250 mg.Your mileage may vary with regard to side effects. My stomach has been shown to empty very slowly (gastroparesis) and may have prolonged the amount of time the alginate was in the stomach and causing belching and a sense of fullness. My wife takes a GLP-1 agent that causes gastroparesis as a side effect. So, we were a setup for having prolonged side effects after a single dose.From what I read, in vitro studies suggest the foam raft is typically only effective for 3-4 hours.