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.
If your ears feel constantly full, blocked, or crackly, they pop when you swallow, and no amount of yawning quite clears them, acid reflux is a cause worth taking seriously. It sounds like an unlikely connection — the stomach and the ears are a long way apart — but …
Acid Reflux and Eustachian Tube Dysfunction: Ear Fullness Read More
If you work nights, rotating shifts, or long unsocial hours and your reflux feels worse than it should, it’s not in your head. Shift work is one of the more overlooked drivers of acid reflux — not because of the job itself, but because of what it does to …
Shift Work and Acid Reflux: How to Manage Flare-Ups Read More
Thanksgiving and Christmas are the two biggest heartburn days of the year for a lot of people — and it’s no mystery why. A giant plate piled high, loaded with rich, fatty, and acidic foods, washed down with wine and topped off with dessert, then finished by slumping onto …
Holiday Heartburn: How to Survive Thanksgiving & Christmas Read More
Eating out is one of the trickiest parts of living with acid reflux. Restaurant meals tend to be bigger, richer, and fattier than what you’d make at home, they often arrive drenched in acidic or creamy sauces, and they usually land late in the evening with a drink alongside …
Eating Out With Acid Reflux: What to Order and Avoid Read More
If your acid reflux seems to get louder every winter, you’re not imagining it. Cold weather itself doesn’t pour acid into your esophagus, but the season bundles together a whole set of reflux triggers — richer, heavier meals, holiday weight gain, more colds and coughing, less activity, and a …
Acid Reflux and Cold Weather: Why Winter Makes It Worse Read More
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