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. and what you should do about it By Lois Rogers Published: 06:51 EDT, 22 October 2024 | Updated: 06:51 EDT, 22 October 2024 e-mail View comments Chicken, peas and mashed potato might seem like a fairly ordinary meal to most people, but, for Bradley Phelps, that dinner after an operation he had at a private hospital in March 2022 was the first normal meal he'd been able to eat in five years. 'It was amazing,' he says.
'I had none of the pain, nausea or acid coming back into my mouth that I had with normal meals before. I couldn't believe it.' That day, Bradley had become one of the first people in Britain to be treated with a marble-sized implant for gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD), a chronic condition which now affects millions of adults.
With more people developing reflux because of obesity and lack of exercise, and concerns over the health risks from the long-term use of over-the-counter proton pump inhibitor drugs (PPIs) to treat it, there is likely to be a growing clamour for such surgery. 'I had been getting increasingly unwell for about 15 years and, for the previous five years, I'd been existing on a piece of dry toast for breakfast and a sandwich for tea,' says Bradley, 71, a retired gardener who lives in Leicester with his wife Bar.
