This category covers Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease or GERD for short. GERD is a severe form of acid reflux with the most common symptom being heartburn.
Raising the head of your bed is one of the simplest, cheapest, and best-evidenced things you can do for nighttime acid reflux and LPR. When you lie flat, gravity stops helping you — stomach contents can drift up your oesophagus and reach your throat all night. Tilt your upper …
Water seems like it should be the one drink you never have to think about with reflux. And for the most part, it is your best friend — but not all water is equal, and for silent reflux (LPR) in particular, the type you choose can genuinely matter. Here …
If you are heading toward anti-reflux surgery, you will quickly run into a fork in the road: Nissen or Toupet? Both are laparoscopic fundoplications — operations that reinforce the valve at the top of your stomach to stop reflux — but they differ in one crucial way. Nissen wraps …
The TIF procedure sits in an interesting middle ground for acid reflux — more than medication, less than surgery. Its full name is transoral incisionless fundoplication, and the clue is in the word “incisionless”: the whole thing is done through your mouth, with no cuts on your abdomen at …
If you have proven acid reflux that will not settle on medication — or you simply do not want to be on a PPI for the rest of your life — the LINX device is one of the alternatives you will come across. It is a clever little implant: …
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 …