It requires surhery for complete cure. But that is performed in case of very lax les or when you have other complications. Generally all the measures are meant to control or to prevent the decrease in tone of les. This is done by preventing the intake of foodstuffs that maintains the tone of LES and do not allow it to loose-open the sphincter ehen not required, like peppermint, tomatoes etc. (There is a whole list of foodstuff and other factors, that might help you out, you can contact online gor those details.)