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Gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD)

BMJ Best Practice Podcast

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How Long Should Your Initial Course of Treatment Be?

For an average patient, how long should your initial course of treatment be with a PPI? So the recommendation is to start as a super medicine medication and continue it for eight weeks. And after that, there's no formal recommendation on how to stop the medicine, but a tapered approach may be better than stopping it right at the end of the eight weeks.

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