I started the HCL challenge, with one HCL/Pepsin pill at dinner. My stomach burned within 10 minutes. Burning got worse with dinner...to lava like feeling in my stomach and fever and acidic bowel movements that contain blood. What should I do?

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: About 40 minutes after I ate, it seemed like my stomach dumped a lot of acid into my stomach again, which lead to extreme stomach burning/bloating/gas/slight fever. So on the second day I didn't take the HCL pill, but I did still do ACV with Lemon water in the morning and ginger with lunch, sauerkraut with dinner. After eating lunch I didn't have too much pain, but definitely experienced stomach pains all night the night before and that morning up until I ate a snack in the afternoon. I ate dinner that night, and my stomach started all over again, 40 minutes after eating… what feels like lava in my stomach (boiling acid). I got fever, goose bumps, extreme bloating/gas, and very acidic bowel movements that contain blood. Should I back off on something? Today I didn't take any ACV with lemon water, ate breakfast and am experiencing all of the symptoms listed above.

A: This is most unusual... to have residual occurrences. With all of this going on, stop the HCl, ACV/lemon, and kimchi. Use aloe and slippery elm together before each meal: 1 oz aloe vera liquid + 1 Tsp slippery elm powder. It seems that soothing and healing is needed and can help balance and resolve these issues. The blood in the stool is an occurrence at a different location -- and can benefit from the aloe. It seems that you might have some inflammation and or erosion of stomach lining, maybe a history of an ulcer? Thus the aloe should serve you well. If you encounter the lava again, use a tsp of baking soda in water to calm down. I really hope this helps ☺