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.
If your mouth suddenly floods with fluid, there are two completely different things that could be happening — and telling them apart is the single most useful thing you can do about it. Water brash is a sudden rush of thin, clear, tasteless or slightly salty saliva. It comes …
Water Brash and Regurgitation: Why Your Mouth Fills Up Read More
A low FODMAP diet can genuinely help acid reflux — but only for a specific group of people, and not for the reason most articles claim. It doesn’t lower the acidity of your food. It reduces the amount of gas fermenting in your gut, and gas pressure is one …
Low FODMAP Diet for Acid Reflux: Does It Really Help? Read More
Omeprazole can lower magnesium levels by impairing how much of it you absorb from food, and it’s a slow, cumulative effect — it’s been reported after as little as three months, but most cases surface after at least a year of continuous use. It’s uncommon in absolute terms, but …
Omeprazole and Low Magnesium: Symptoms and What Helps Read More
Yes — omeprazole can lower your vitamin B12, but only in a specific way and only over a long time. It reduces how much B12 you absorb from food, because stomach acid and pepsin are needed to prise B12 off the protein it’s attached to. It does not block …
If you’ve taken a proton pump inhibitor for months and your throat still feels the same, you’re in very ordinary company. PPIs work far less reliably for LPR than they do for heartburn, and the reason is mechanical rather than mysterious: they change the acidity of what refluxes, not …
Silent reflux is probably the most misunderstood condition I write about. It gets confused with GERD, dismissed as allergies, treated with drugs that often don’t touch it, and explained with a model of “too much acid” that the research moved past years ago. That matters, because most of the …