could you tell me what are gallstones and how is that different from acid reflux?

Question

Do acid reflux and gallstones have a link in any way?

Answer 1

Stones vs GERD: Gallstones are hard materia made of bile from gallbladder. They live in gallbladder until they are squeezed into the small intestine. Sometimes that squeezing hurts and blocks up. Acid reflux is stomach contents mixed with stomach acid go into esophagus. This has very little do do with the gallbladder except that both issues cause pain after eating sometimes and can be confused.

Answer 2

Needs time: Reflux is a condition that children must outgrow. I usually tell parents that if you do nothing they will outgrow it by a year. Once you introduce food it often improves. It can worsen between 6-8 months as the child gets more mobile and "shakes himself up" with crawling. I have had great success with chinese medicine helping reflux. Check in your area for practitioners.

Answer 3

Can persist for yrs: Reflux by itself is with us thru out life. If you can burp/belch/spit up then you reflux. Reflux disorder or disease implies important negatives:pain, weight loss, etc. Upright posture after meals helps most of us avoid sx. As long as babies feed often and lay flat, gravity is not helping keep the food down & they may have sx. I've had a rare baby on meds until 4y, most are off by 6-9mo.

Answer 4

Hormonal Effects: The gallbladder is a muscular sac that essentially squirts bile into the intestines to help digestion. The increased estrogen levels of pregnancy relax the muscle a bit, so the bile sits around more in the gallbladder. This "stagnant" bile, combined with some changes in the chemicals in bile related to pregnancy favor more stones forming than when you are not pregnant.

Answer 5

Hormone changes: Gallbladder works less well and stones develop easier.

Answer 6

Hoarseness: In cases of severe reflux, one can develop hoarseness. However, most of the time the acid does not travel high enough to reach the vocal cords.

Answer 7

Causes hoaseness: Acid reflux is a condition where gastric fluid, including stomac acid, makes its way up into the back of the throat. At the back of the throat the opening of the esophagus, the tube that takes food to & from the stomach, and the voice box, which is the larynx, are very close together. Refluxing acid touching the vocal cords causes irritation and swelling of the cords and hoarseness results.

Answer 8

Reflux & voice: The reflux of gastric contents can cause inflammation & swelling of the lower throat, upper trachea and the vocal cords. All of these can affect phonation or the production of sound.

Answer 9

Swells vocal cords: Phlem in the throat early in the morning or 15 minutes after you eat usually indicates that your esophogus is trying to protect itself from acid refluxing from the stomach. The mucous collects around the trachea and when you breathe in the acidic moisture irritates and inflames the vocal cords interferring with the normal vibration thereby sounding deeper or raspy....More.

Answer 10

2-4 months: Reflux and spitting up peaks for most babies in the second month of life (contrary to the popular notion that babies spit up a lot when they are first born). More than 50% of 2-month olds spit up, versus less than 10% of 12-month olds. As you can see, reflux gradually improves for most babies over the first year of life.

Answer 11

4 & 24 months: Ger (gastroesophageal reflux) peaks at 4 months of age, decreases after 4-6months, and resolves by 24 months in 98% of the cases.

Answer 12

4, 18 months: Gastroesophageal reflux peaks at about 4 months and resolves by 12- 18 months.

Answer 13

Maybe: Every person is different in their triggers for ace reflux and i would look at how your body reacts to it. There are some reports of cinnamon helping gerd and certainly it may trigger the symptoms in others.

Answer 14

Most of the time: The common triggers for reflux are fatty foods, spicy foods, cigarettes, and alcohol. In general, avoiding these products will improve reflux symptoms. Hope this helps!

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