Acid Reflux - Q and A: Acid Reflux and Your Lungs

Acid Reflux - Q and A: Acid Reflux and Your Lungs

Informative article regarding how acid reflux can effect your lungs?

Acid reflux can cause pulmonary complications such as cough, asthma and aspiration. Refluxed liquid can cause coughing by stimulating nerves that provoke coughing. Additionally, reflux into the lower esophagus can stimulate esophageal nerves that connect to and can stimulate nerves going to the lungs. These nerves to the lungs then can cause the smaller breathing tubes to narrow, resulting in an attack of asthma. The reflux of liquid into the lungs (called aspiration) often results in coughing and choking.

American Chronicle: Acid Reflux Syndrome and Your Life Style

American Chronicle: Acid Reflux Syndrome and Your Life Style

You are in an important meeting and are just about to close the biggest deal of your career. You should be somewhere up on cloud nine, but you only just manage to present a happy smiling face to your colleagues. It’s not that you’re not over the moon, and wouldn’t like to celebrate with the rest of them, but you’ve got that burning feeling again that tells you that you shouldn’t have had that burrito for lunch. You are suffering from heartburn. Or so you think. In actuality you could be suffering from Acid Reflux Syndrome.