Compound Sodium Alginate Double Action Chewable Tablet Symptomatic Relief Study

Inclusion Criteria: * Current evidence of symptomatic GERD in accord with the Montreal definition. * Patients must have had troublesome heartburn and/or regurgitation (with or without dyspepsia symptoms) of at least mild or moderate intensity on at least 5 days during the week before the start of screening. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients who have a history of drug, solvent or alcohol abuse. * Patients who have suffered cardiac chest pain within the last year. * Patients who have suffered a recent, significant unexplained weight loss of more than 6 kg in the last 6 months. * Female patients of childbearing potential who, for the duration of the study, are either unwilling or unable to take adequate contraceptive precautions or are unwilling to be sexually abstinent. * Pregnancy or lactating mother. * Patients with a history and/or symptom profile suggestive of the following: any other gastrointestinal (GI) disease, erosive GERD (Los Angeles classification grades C-D), Barrett's oesophagus, acute peptic ulcer and/or ulcer complications, Zollinger-Ellison syndrome, gastric carcinoma, pyloric stenosis, oesophageal or gastric surgery, intestinal obstruction, current pernicious anaemia, indication for H. pylori eradication therapy, known gastrointestinal bleeding (hematochezia or hematemesis) within 3 months prior to the study, and severe diseases of other major body systems. * Patients who were observed at screening to have a hiatus hernia with a diameter which exceeds 3 cm. * …