If your reflux reliably flares on a flight — heartburn somewhere over the Atlantic, a burning throat by the time you land — it isn’t in your head, and it isn’t just the airport food. Flying stacks up several reflux triggers at once: the cabin’s low pressure makes the …
Acid Reflux and Flying: How to Avoid Cabin Flare-Ups Read More
If lifting weights sets off heartburn, a burning throat, or that acid-in-the-chest feeling, you’re not imagining it and you’re not doing anything wrong. Weightlifting is one of the most reliable exercise triggers for reflux because straining under a heavy load spikes the pressure inside your abdomen and pushes stomach …
Weightlifting and Acid Reflux: How to Train Safely Read More
If you get heartburn on the run — that burning behind the breastbone somewhere around mile three, often with a lot of belching — you’re experiencing something well documented in the research literature. Running provokes reflux more reliably than almost any other endurance activity, and it does so even …
Runner’s Acid Reflux: Why Running Triggers Heartburn Read More
Acid reflux changes as you get older, and it changes in a way that catches a lot of people out. The symptoms often become milder — less heartburn, less obvious burning — while the actual damage to the oesophagus becomes more severe. That combination is the central problem with …
Acid Reflux in Older Adults: What Changes With Age Read More
Acid reflux in teenagers is far more common than most parents expect. Symptoms of reflux affect somewhere in the region of 2–8% of children and adolescents, and in surveys of teenagers specifically the numbers run higher — one study of 14–18 year olds found a substantial minority reporting regular …
Silent reflux in children — laryngopharyngeal reflux, or LPR — happens when stomach contents travel up and reach the throat, voice box and airway rather than causing the obvious spitting up or heartburn most parents expect. Because there’s often no visible vomiting, it’s easy to miss, which is exactly …
Silent Reflux (LPR) in Children & Toddlers: Signs and Help Read More