RB has teamed up with a bartender and community pharmacist Stuart Nankivell to create a short educational video to help pharmacists ‘visualise’ the acid pocket concept and GAVISCON's mode of action.
According to the company, researchers have identified a major source of postprandial acid reflux called the acid pocket, a highly-acidic gastric secretion which floats on top of the less-acidic stomach contents, close to the gastro-oesophageal junction.
“The role of the acid pocket in the treatment of GORD is quite a new concept, and one that many pharmacists are not overly familiar with. RB thought that likening the formation of the acid pocket and the Gaviscon mode of action to that of creating and layering a cocktail was a novel way to explain an otherwise complicated process.” siad Mr Nankivell.