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.
One question puzzled me for years with silent reflux: why is the throat so much more delicate than the food pipe below it? People with ordinary heartburn can have acid splashing their oesophagus (the tube that carries food to the stomach) for years before it causes real trouble. Yet …
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 there is one idea that finally made silent reflux make sense to me, it is pepsin reactivation. It explains the thing that confused me for years: why my throat kept getting worse even on days I hadn’t obviously refluxed, and why a single “healthy” glass of orange juice …
How Pepsin Reactivates in the Throat and Why It Matters 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