Different foods and beverages can trigger acid reflux for different people. Examples of common dietary triggers for acid ...

You’re likely familiar with the feeling of rushing to unbutton your pants after a big dinner or at the end of a long day of ...

When you eat a lot and the food takes a long time to break down, that can prevent the valve connecting the esophagus and the ...

Acid reflux occurs when the valve, or sphincter, that connects the stomach to the esophagus, or food pipe, is weakened. When this happens, stomach acid, which should stay in the stomach, flows back ...

You’re just about to doze off into a restful slumber when it starts: the nausea, fiery chest pains, and scorching burps that ...

Stick around as we dig deeper into acid reflux in dogs, including the potential causes, its common symptoms, and whether ...

The resulting semifluid paste—chyme—is sealed in the stomach by two ringlike sphincter muscles for several hours and then released in short bursts into the duodenum. The first of three ...

Heartburn happens when a small valve called the lower esophageal sphincter opens and allows stomach acid to flow up into the esophagus, causing that burning feeling. Many of us pop an after dinner ...

The sphincters are bands of muscle tissue that open to allow food into the stomach and close tightly to prevent stomach contents from leaking back into the esophagus. GERD and LPR affect different ...