We then sat down to a stomach-coating dinner of a lush Provençal daube (from Patricia Wells's "At Home in Provence"), cheese-grits soufflé, crusty French bread and a romaine salad with red onion and avocado and a lemony vinaigrette.
After leaving the stomach, tablets coated with the single-coating formulation showed a significant time delay before disintegration occurred in the mid to distal small intestine, with a mean disintegration time of 66 ± 22 min post gastric emptying.
Since the mucus is a gel, it entraps the alkaline fluid so that the stomach is coated.
Such anti-acid remedies have a proved record of reducing acid, gas, and bile by reducing stomach acid and/or coating the lining of the stomach.
Now your stomach is Teflon coated.
"Got to coat your stomach for all the booze we are about to drink," he explains.
Both the cardiac and pyloric glands secrete mucus, which coats the stomach and protects it from self-digestion by helping to dilute acids and enzymes.
Thankfully, Colombia's Pacific region is responsible for some of its most flavourful cuisine, and dishes like shrimp ceviche and spicy pescado (fish) helped coat my stomach before I had to force viche down my gullet.
"You just need to eat something, something greasy, you'll be fine, just coat your stomach with foodstuffs," they say.
There's also an extensive wine and cocktail list, and there are plenty of snacks to coat the stomach.
Bread absorbs excess acid, while milk coats your stomach and helps to settle it.
