Background: While medical therapy may fail to improve cough due to gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), it is not known if inadequate esophageal acid suppression is responsible. Methods ...
One in 10 people who see a throat doctor have laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), a type of acid reflux that causes sticky enzymes normally in the stomach to travel to the throat and voice box, leading to ...
For years, Rich Bugay struggled with a burning mouth he thought was due to acid reflux. But no matter how often the father-of-three, from Michigan, used cough drops— the symptom never seemed to ...
We conclude that, in children without lung disease the common co-existence of cough with symptoms of GERD is independent of the occurrence of RE. Airway neutrophilia when present in these children ...
dry coughs can have a number of causes including hypersensitivity of nerves in the airway after an infection (known as post-infection cough), asthma, allergies, acid reflux (where stomach acid ...
A woman who suffered the debilitating effects of severe acid reflux has described ... eat without enduring severe coughing and pain because of gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD).