{"id":961,"date":"2014-02-05T18:32:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/?page_id=961"},"modified":"2014-02-05T18:32:57","modified_gmt":"2014-02-05T16:32:57","slug":"gastroesophageal-reflux-disease-gord","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/conditions\/gastroesophageal-reflux-disease-gord\/","title":{"rendered":"Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\">Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD)<\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This is the reflux of acid from the stomach into the oesophagus resulting in symptomatic burning of the chest and also possibly throat, sinus and lung diseases as a complication of this.\u00a0 Sometimes patients with chronic sinusitis, hoarseness and adult onset asthma or recurrent pneumonias have underlying Acid Reflux as the cause of their disease.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Causes of GORD include a Hiatus Hernia, Obesity, Poor diet and eating habits, drugs and medications and various other genetic and environmental factors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A diagnosis is established using barium tests (specialised x-rays), gastroscopies\u2019 and in difficult cases or cases requiring surgery, pH Testing.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GORD) This is the reflux of acid from the stomach into the oesophagus resulting in symptomatic burning of the chest and also possibly throat, sinus and lung [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":819,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"tpl-feature.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-961","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=961"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":964,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/961\/revisions\/964"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gastrodr.co.za\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}