If you have EoE and don’t take medicines for years, the disease can become much worse. To treat Eosinophilic Esophagitis there is food diets and medicines you can take. For some people it may help to go on a strict diet where you cut out wheat, milk, eggs, nuts, soy, fish and shellfish. This diet is called the six-food elimination diet.
For others it may be enough to go on medicines. The main treatment for eosinophilic esophagitis is Steroids. Topical steroids that you can swallow from either an inhaler or as a liquid. Another common medicine to take are PPIs, short for proton pump inhibitors. These medicines are acid suppressors that can help you with decreasing inflammation and reflux symptoms.
There exist many types of the PPIs drugs. Some of them are called Lansoprazole, Rabeprazole and Pantoprazole. The ones that I take are called esomeprazole and budesonide. Esomeprazole is a pill that you can swallow, but for people with EoE it is hard to swallow pills, because they’re solid, but lucky for us this pill is possible to open. Inside there is just a lot of tiny lumps that are much easier to swallow.