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It is a common health problem that physicians feel is caused by a hiatal hernia or when the lower esophageal sphincter or LES which is the opening to your stomach doesn’t work well enough to hold food and fluids in the stomach and allows food and stomach juices and acids to wash back into the esophagus.
