If your reflux symptoms are real but your pH test came back normal, there’s a good chance you have non-acid reflux — reflux that’s happening, but isn’t acidic enough for a standard pH test to register. The test wasn’t wrong. It was just measuring the wrong thing. A conventional …
The Reflux Finding Score (RFS) is the checklist your ENT fills in when they look at your voice box with a camera and are trying to work out whether reflux is behind your throat symptoms. It rates eight specific signs of irritation in the larynx — things like swelling, …
If you’re buying alkaline water specifically for reflux, one number matters more than the brand on the label: the pH needs to be 8.8 or higher. That’s the threshold at which alkaline water has been shown to deactivate pepsin, the enzyme behind throat-based reflux damage. Plenty of “alkaline” waters …
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If coffee gives you heartburn but you’re not ready to give it up, low-acid coffee is the compromise worth trying. The best US brands for reflux-prone drinkers are Lifeboost, Puroast, Volcanica, trücup, Tieman’s and Java Planet — each getting to “low acid” a different way, from slow roasting to …
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Rumination syndrome is a condition where food comes back up into your mouth effortlessly within minutes of eating — not vomited, not forced, just quietly rising back up to be re-chewed, re-swallowed or spat out. It feels like reflux or regurgitation, so that’s almost always what it gets called …
Achalasia and acid reflux can look almost identical from the outside — heartburn, regurgitation, chest discomfort, food coming back up — which is exactly why achalasia is so often mistaken for stubborn GERD. But underneath, they’re opposites. Reflux is a valve that’s too loose, letting stomach contents escape upward. …