What is Acid Reflux

PEDIATRIC CHRONIC COUGH LINKED TO REFLUX AND ALLERGIES New research shows that chronic cough in children is most often caused by gastroesophageal reflux and allergies. Researchers from Tulane University in New Orleans, LA, evaluated 40 patients aged 5 to 12 years with chronic cough ( 8 weeks in duration) with no obvious cause. Each patient underwent extensive multispecialty testing…

Having to deal with asthma is bad enough, but to make matters worse, one out of every three asthmatics in this country also suffers from acid reflux.* For years doctors thought that treating acid reflux might be able to help with asthma. But a new study in the April 9th issue of the New England Journal of Medicine casts some doubts about that.