Most decisions about gastric acid are made without measuring it. The Heidelberg pH Capsule System gives you the missing variable: a real time intragastric pH tracing and a quantified reacidification response to a standardized bicarbonate challenge, in about an hour.
Hypochlorhydria is common and largely invisible in routine practice, because there has been no accessible real time measurement tool at the point of care.
of adults aged 60 to 99 showed atrophic gastritis — a pepsinogen I/II ratio below 2.9 — in a 359 subject cohort.
Acid output is further reduced by autoimmune gastritis, Helicobacter pylori, and chronic acid suppression. The downstream consequences are concrete: impaired non-heme iron absorption, vitamin B12 malabsorption, calcium and magnesium malabsorption, reduced pepsin activation and protein digestion, and loss of the gastric acid barrier that restrains small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and enteric pathogens.
Two-point calibration at pH 1.0 and pH 7.0 against reference buffers.
The patient swallows the tethered capsule. Record fasting baseline pH, then deliver sequential sodium bicarbonate challenges.
Time the return to baseline acidity after each challenge. Reacidification interval, pattern, and how strongly the stomach restores its acidity..
An in-office procedure.The Heidelberg system fits a standard clinic. It requires no catheter, no sedation, and no ionizing radiation, and the equipment stays with your practice between patients.
Performed in a standard exam room. No catheter, no sedation, no ionizing radiation.
A typical bicarbonate challenge protocol runs 45 to 90 minutes, with results available the same visit.
One transceiver and recorder stays in your practice; capsules are single use and simply reordered.
Onsite or remote training on calibration, administration, and tracing interpretation.