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’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
If you’ve been down the reflux rabbit hole, you’ve probably come across prokinetics — a class of drugs that speed up the movement of your digestive tract. The logic sounds compelling: empty the stomach faster and tighten the valve above it, and there should be less acid to reflux …
Most reflux advice fixates on the valve at the top of the stomach — and it matters. But there is a second half of the story that gets almost no attention: how quickly your esophagus cleans up after acid comes back up. That job belongs to esophageal motility, the …
Here is something that took me embarrassingly long to appreciate: your saliva is a genuine anti-reflux weapon. It is mildly alkaline, it is loaded with bicarbonate — the same buffering compound in antacid tablets — and every single time you swallow it, it neutralises acid clinging to your oesophagus …
Saliva, Bicarbonate & Acid Reflux: Why Dry Mouth Hurts Read More
If you have reflux, almost everything traces back to one small ring of muscle: the lower esophageal sphincter, or LES. It is the valve sitting between your esophagus and your stomach, and when it does its job, you never think about it. When it does not, you get heartburn, …
Lower Esophageal Sphincter (LES): How It Affects Acid Reflux Read More