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.
A dry throat at night is usually caused by breathing through your mouth while you sleep, dry indoor air, or both. Saliva production drops sharply during sleep, so your mouth and throat already have less moisture overnight. Mouth breathing then dries the surface out with every breath. A blocked …
A white coating on your tongue is usually a buildup of dead cells, bacteria and food debris trapped between the tiny bumps (papillae) on its surface. It’s most often caused by a dry mouth, mouth breathing, dehydration, not cleaning your tongue, smoking or alcohol. It’s normally harmless and clears …
Waking up nauseous usually comes down to something that happened in your stomach overnight. The most common causes are reflux while you were lying flat, an empty stomach and low blood sugar after a long fast, swallowed mucus from post nasal drip, anxiety, alcohol, poor sleep, and medications taken …
Dysphagia is the medical term for difficulty swallowing. It means food, drink or pills don’t pass smoothly from your mouth to your stomach. You might cough or choke as you swallow, feel something sticking in your throat or chest, or need several swallows to get one mouthful down. It’s …
Trapped gas in the chest usually feels like pressure, fullness or a sharp, shifting pain behind the breastbone or under the ribs. It tends to ease when you burp, pass gas or change position. The quickest ways to release it are to get moving (a 10–15 minute walk), try …
If you’ve never been able to burp — not once, not properly, for as long as you can remember — the condition you’re describing has a name: retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction, or R-CPD. You’ll also see it called “no burp syndrome” or “inability to belch syndrome.” It happens when the …