2007-03-13 03:02:23 · 3 answers · asked by Herbert Windt 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Medicine
The calcium will actually cause increased acid production, but the scientific evidence overall is, "we dunno." If it feels good, it's probably OK, and it was a mainstay of treatment in the first half of the twentieth century, when there was a general idea that white things felt good and red things bad for your ulcer, It sounds crazy in the world of $3-a-pill proton pump inhibitors and routine esophagogastroduodenoscopy, but to a large degree it still holds fairly true.
2007-03-13 07:38:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes and no.....it (as well as Mylanta or other ant-acids) helps with the symptoms a bit but the cause of peptic ulcer is parasitic/bacterial....so it makes sense to cure it rather than mask it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peptic_ulcer
http://glycob.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/10/8/761
2007-03-13 10:43:11 · answer #2 · answered by Scully 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most ulcers are due to high amounts of stomach acid. milk is a base, and should therefore neutralize some of the acid.
2007-03-13 10:06:27 · answer #3 · answered by Tom B 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋