If you have a reflux cough that just will not quit — even after months on a PPI, a clean diet, and every lifestyle change going — there is an important possibility worth understanding: your cough may no longer be about acid at all. A persistent cough that started …
Baclofen is not a reflux drug by design. It started life as a muscle relaxant for conditions like spasticity, and it is still mainly known for that. But it has a second trick that makes it genuinely interesting for stubborn reflux: it works upstream of acid entirely, reducing the …
Sucralfate — sold as Carafate in the US and Antepsin in the UK — is one of those reflux medicines that sounds almost too good for silent reflux when you first read about it. It is a “mucosal protector” that forms a physical barrier over damaged tissue and, crucially, …
If you have been researching prokinetics, you have probably run into domperidone. It comes up a lot in reflux forums, usually framed as the drug that “tightens the valve” and “speeds up your stomach.” The short answer is that domperidone can help some people with acid reflux and LPR, …
If you’ve researched prescription options for stubborn reflux, you may have come across metoclopramide — sold as Reglan in the US and Maxolon in the UK. It’s a prokinetic drug, meaning it speeds up the movement of your digestive tract, and on paper that sounds ideal for reflux. So …
Metoclopramide (Reglan) for Acid Reflux: Does It Work? Read More
Jolting awake coughing and spluttering, with a sour or bitter fluid at the back of your throat and a desperate need to clear your airway — it’s a horrible way to wake up, and it frightened me the first few times it happened. What you’re experiencing is usually aspiration: …
Waking Up Choking From Acid Reflux (Aspiration Explained) Read More