How Do Reflux Medications Work? (PPI, H2 Blockers, Antacids, Alginates)

There are many different types of reflux medications . However, they all do not work the same way. This animation goes over how the different classes of reflux medications prevent reflux symptoms. For simplicity’s sake, the role of ECL cells, acetylcholine, gastrin, etc has been eliminated/ignored. Check out our online reflux store .

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Can Reflux Medications Cause Allergies?

Image courtesy of Areeya at  FreeDigitalPhotos.net Reflux medications are wonderful to treat symptoms of heartburn as well as reflux-triggered throat problems . However, there is growing concern that long-term use of reflux medications is associated with other health problems including nutritional deficiencies along with increased risk of bone fracture, pneumonia, and other infections including Clostridium difficile infection where proton pump inhibitors may carry a high risk equivalent t…

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30% of Patients with Reflux will NOT Respond to Medications

Specifically, patients who are suffering with throat symptoms of reflux will often not respond to proton-pump inhibitor (PPI) medications. Such throat symptoms include  throat-clearing , phlegmy throat , cough , hoarseness, and globus . Known as LPR (laryngopharyngeal reflux), a study was done measuring the pH at the throat level after 4+ weeks of twice daily PPI. This retrospective study found that although 67.4% had symptom normalization, 32.6% of patients showed no subjective or ob…

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Do Reflux Medications Increase Risk of Esophageal and Throat Cancer?

Image by Steven Fruitsmakk from Wikipedia Over the last 30 years, the incidence of esophageal cancer has been steadily rising in spite of increased use of reflux medications . In fact, one can almost say that there is an inverse relationship between risk of esophageal cancer and reflux medication usage. BUT, it is also a foregone conclusion that reflux increases the risk of esophageal and throat cancer too. So, why would there be an increased incidence of esophageal cancer when reflux i…

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Reflux Medication Addiction

When a patient suffers from reflux , there is an astounding array of very effective medications to induce acid suppression for symptom relief. Chief among the reflux medications are the proton pump inhibitors that include medications like prilosec, nexium, protonix, prevacid, dexilant, etc. When such medications are taken by a patient, especially one who does not normally take proton pump inhibitors, effective acid suppression occurs. It works EXTREMELY well; even at low doses. Howe…

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