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 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 …
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 …
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, …