Doctors suggest that long-term drug usage to treat heartburn should only be used for patients with severe gastroesophageal reflux disease.
The study appears in this month's issue of Gastroenterology.
Study: Heartburn drug might cause heartburn
July 7, 2009
Researchers studied 120 healthy people for 12 weeks.
They found that treatment with a proton pump inhibitor, or PPI, actually produced heartburn, acid reflux and indigestion in people who took the medication after eight weeks.
Forty-four-percent of those people reported acid reflux after stopping the medication.
