This category is covering Laryngopharyngeal Reflux or LPR for short. It is a form of acid reflux that can affect the throat, sinuses and more.
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 …
Sucralfate — sold as Carafate in the US and Antepsin in the UK — is one of those reflux medicines that sounds almost too good for silent reflux when you first read about it. It is a “mucosal protector” that forms a physical barrier over damaged tissue and, crucially, …
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, …
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 …
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