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.
Voice therapy can genuinely help silent reflux — but it’s important to understand what it helps, because it doesn’t work the way you might expect. Voice therapy doesn’t stop reflux. It treats the throat and voice problems that reflux leaves behind, and — this is the surprising part — …
Vocal cord dysfunction (VCD) and silent reflux both cause throat and breathing symptoms, and they’re easy to confuse — but they’re different problems, and here’s the cleanest way to tell them apart. VCD is your vocal cords closing when they should open, causing sudden, frightening episodes of not being …
If your reflux symptoms are real but your pH test came back normal, there’s a good chance you have non-acid reflux — reflux that’s happening, but isn’t acidic enough for a standard pH test to register. The test wasn’t wrong. It was just measuring the wrong thing. A conventional …
The Reflux Finding Score (RFS) is the checklist your ENT fills in when they look at your voice box with a camera and are trying to work out whether reflux is behind your throat symptoms. It rates eight specific signs of irritation in the larynx — things like swelling, …
If you’re buying alkaline water specifically for reflux, one number matters more than the brand on the label: the pH needs to be 8.8 or higher. That’s the threshold at which alkaline water has been shown to deactivate pepsin, the enzyme behind throat-based reflux damage. Plenty of “alkaline” waters …
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An esophageal stricture is a narrowing of the esophagus — the muscular tube that carries food from your throat to your stomach. When it’s caused by acid reflux, it happens because years of acid burning the lower esophagus leave scar tissue behind, and scar tissue shrinks and tightens, squeezing …
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