Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Peppermint caps and GERD..Linz

I, too, have GERD and found I couldn't use Peppermint because it upset my stomach so much. I ordered the enteric coated peppermint from Heather and discovered a couple of things about it. My daughter is a nurse and tells me there are two types of enteric coating. One absolutely will not digest in your stomach at all and the other has a really thick coating which eventually will dissolve in your stomach if it's in there a long time. I think Heather's enteric coated peppermint is this second kind because I have found that if I take it with a large meal and it is stuck in my stomach for a long time while all of that food is digesting, I eventually will be tasting peppermint (meaning it is backing up into my esophagus). On the other hand, if I take it on an empty stomach I usually don't end up tasting peppermint because it moves out of my stomach before it can digest. Occasionally, however, if I take it on an empty stomach BUT right before going to bed I will still taste peppermint in the night--you know how GERD works when we lay down.

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