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Lee: I dont beleive in air swallowing - please comment

From: Marianne
Date: 12/23/00
Time: 01:23:13

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I have suffered from gas for 1½ years - burp constantly- and diagnosed with weak LES and heartburn. A few months I tries one week of eating ONLY oat porridge and drinking tea and the gas problem was totally gone. It came back the same day I returned to regular diet. You would think there would be plenty of opportunity to swallow air on that diet (eating hot stuff with a spoon and drinking hot tea - appr. 5 cups a day) but apparently that didn't happen. Lee, could you suggest an explanation for this? Thanks Marianne

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