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What You Should Know About Silent Reflux

Content extracted from website: https://www.healthline.com/health/silent-reflux

Overview

If you’ve ever overdone it on pizza and beer, you may be familiar with the discomfort of acid reflux. Heartburn, chest pain, and nausea are all hallmarks of reflux.

The symptoms are unmistakable. But for some people, the symptoms of reflux aren’t so obvious. In fact, they’re silent.

Laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR) is also known as silent reflux. LPR doesn’t cause any symptoms. The contents of your stomach could reflux up your esophagus, into your throat and voice box, and even into your nasal passages, and you might never know it — until more serious symptoms begin to arise from damage caused by stomach acid.

Symptoms

As its name suggests, silent reflux causes few symptoms. Most people with silent reflux do not experience heartburn. Unlike silent reflux, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) causes some symptoms.

Knowing the difference between the two types of reflux and their symptoms may help you know which type you’re experiencing.

Common symptoms of LPR	Common symptoms of GERD
a bitter taste in your throat	heartburn
a sore throat or a burning sensation in your throat	nausea, vomiting, or regurgitation
difficulty swallowing	difficulty swallowing
hoarseness	hoarseness after sleeping
frequently feeling the need to clear your throat	dry, painful cough
chronic postnasal drip, or feeling like you have drainage dripping from your nose into your throat	bad breath
asthma	chest pain

Causes

When you eat, food travels from your mouth, down your esophagus, and into your stomach. Then, your gastrointestinal system begins the process of breaking the food down, extracting nutrients, and producing waste.

Sometimes stomach acid may escape back into your esophagus. But your body is designed to prevent this. Elasticlike rings (sphincters) around the bottom and top of your esophagus shrink to keep the contents of your stomach from refluxing into your esophagus and throat. People with reflux may have a sphincter that does not close.

Risk factors

People of any age and sex can develop silent reflux. Some people, however, may be more likely to develop it.

Risk factors for silent reflux include:

• lifestyle factors like diet, overeating, or tobacco or alcohol use
• physical causes like a deformed or malfunctioning esophageal sphincter, slow emptying of the stomach, or being overweight
• pregnancy

Learn more: Heartburn, acid reflux, and GERD during pregnancy »

Children and infants may experience reflux more frequently as their upper and lower esophageal sphincter muscles aren’t strong enough to close. This may improve as they age.

Diagnosis

If you suspect you have one or both of these reflux types, make an appointment to see a doctor. A heartburn problem is worth investigating, especially if you’re experiencing symptoms more than twice a week for several weeks.

To reach a diagnosis your doctor will conduct a full exam. This will likely include requesting a history of symptoms, what treatments you’ve tried, and when symptoms are likely to occur.

Your primary care doctor may be able to diagnose you. If they think you’d benefit from a second opinion, they may refer you to a gastroenterologist. This type of doctor specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Learn more: What’s a gastroenterologist? »

Also, if you have silent reflux and scarring or damage from it, your doctor may refer you to an otolaryngologist. This type of doctor is also known as an ear, nose, and throat doctor. They can treat the damage caused by the reflux.

To see the extent of the damage, they may request an endoscopy. During this test, a lighted tube with a camera is sent through your mouth and into your throat and esophagus. This lets your doctor measure the damage and come up with a treatment plan.

Treatment

If your doctor suspects silent reflux, they may prescribe reflux medication. If the medication eases your symptoms, you may be able to continue taking that medication. The medicine will also help stop any damage the silent reflux is causing. But it will not reverse it.

The most common medications used to treat silent reflux include:

• antacids
• proton pump inhibitors (PPIs)
• H2 blockers

These medicines either reduce stomach acid or prevent your stomach from creating as much stomach acid.

In addition to medicine, your doctor may recommend several lifestyle changes. These lifestyle changes are designed to help reduce risk factors that increase your chances of reflux. These lifestyle changes include:

• Stop eating and drinking at least three hours before you’re planning to go to sleep.
• Prop your head up higher when you sleep.
• Identify and limit or eliminate trigger foods. These typically include chocolate, spicy foods, citrus, fried foods, and tomato-based foods.
• If you smoke, quit. Your doctor can help you find a smoking cessation program.

Rarely, surgery is needed. But your doctor may suggest it to strengthen your esophageal sphincter.

Complications

The thin tissue that lines your esophagus is sensitive, and stomach acid is irritating. It can burn and damage the tissue inside your esophagus, throat, and voice box. For adults, the most common complications of silent reflux include long-term irritation, tissue scarring, ulcers, and increased risk for certain cancers.

If not treated properly in children and infants, silent reflux can cause:

• breathing problems
• frequent coughing
• wheezing
• hoarseness
• difficulty swallowing
• frequent spitting up
• breathing disorders, such as apnea, or pauses in breathing

In rare cases, silent reflux may also cause growth issues. If you suspect your child has LDR, or if they’ve been diagnosed with it, it’s important for them to receive treatment to avoid these complications.

Outlook

Diagnosing and treating reflux is the key to preventing symptoms and avoiding damage to your esophagus, throat, lungs, and voice box. A diagnosis is often quite painless and easy.

Treatment may be even more painless. Most people will take a daily medication and make several lifestyle changes. With these lifestyle changes, you may find the medication unnecessary.

Prevention

The same lifestyle treatments doctors may prescribe to help you stop reflux may also help you avoid experiencing reflux. Dietary and lifestyle changes that may help you prevent silent reflux include:

• avoiding foods that cause reflux and keeping a food diary to identify your triggers.
• losing weight if you’re overweight
• quitting smoking
• reducing or cutting the amount of alcohol you consume.
• eating your last meal or snack a minimum of three hours before you go to bed
• sleeping with your head slightly elevated

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The experiment in the video, shows that if you gain weight easily, it could be due to your gut flora and constipation. Poo gets more smellier if increase with age and if eat too much meat or deep fried food.

For healthy gut, it is important to eat a wide variety of healthy food. I hope i get the information correctly, though it is not the full information of the video.

Glycemic index for 60+ foods

Content extracted from Website: https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/glycemic-index-and-glycemic-load-for-100-foods

Glycemic index for 60+ foods

Measuring carbohydrate effects can help glucose management

Updated: March 14, 2018

The glycemic index is a value assigned to foods based on how slowly or how quickly those foods cause increases in blood glucose levels. Also known as "blood sugar," blood glucose levels above normal are toxic and can cause blindness, kidney failure, or increase cardiovascular risk. Foods low on the glycemic index (GI) scale tend to release glucose slowly and steadily. Foods high on the glycemic index release glucose rapidly. Low GI foods tend to foster weight loss, while foods high on the GI scale help with energy recovery after exercise, or to offset hypo- (or insufficient) glycemia. Long-distance runners would tend to favor foods high on the glycemic index, while people with pre- or full-blown diabetes would need to concentrate on low GI foods. Why? People with type 1 diabetes and even some with type 2 can't produce sufficient quantities of insulin—which helps process blood sugar—which means they are likely to have an excess of blood glucose. The slow and steady release of glucose in low-glycemic foods is helpful in keeping blood glucose under control.

To help you understand how the foods you are eating might impact your blood glucose level, here is an abbreviated chart of the glycemic index for more than 60 common foods. A more complete glycemix index chart can be found in the link below.

FOOD	Glycemic index (glucose = 100)
HIGH-CARBOHYDRATE FOODS
White wheat bread*	75 ± 2
Whole wheat/whole meal bread	74 ± 2
Specialty grain bread	53 ± 2
Unleavened wheat bread	70 ± 5
Wheat roti	62 ± 3
Chapatti	52 ± 4
Corn tortilla	46 ± 4
White rice, boiled*	73 ± 4
Brown rice, boiled	68 ± 4
Barley	28 ± 2
Sweet corn	52 ± 5
Spaghetti, white	49 ± 2
Spaghetti, whole meal	48 ± 5
Rice noodles†	53 ± 7
Udon noodles	55 ± 7
Couscous†	65 ± 4
BREAKFAST CEREALS
Cornflakes	81 ± 6
Wheat flake biscuits	69 ± 2
Porridge, rolled oats	55 ± 2
Instant oat porridge	79 ± 3
Rice porridge/congee	78 ± 9
Millet porridge	67 ± 5
Muesli	57 ± 2
FRUIT AND FRUIT PRODUCTS
Apple, raw†	36 ± 2
Orange, raw†	43 ± 3
Banana, raw†	51 ± 3
Pineapple, raw	59 ± 8
Mango, raw†	51 ± 5
Watermelon, raw	76 ± 4
Dates, raw	42 ± 4
Peaches, canned†	43 ± 5
Strawberry jam/jelly	49 ± 3
Apple juice	41 ± 2
Orange juice	50 ± 2
VEGETABLES
Potato, boiled	78 ± 4
Potato, instant mash	87 ± 3
Potato, french fries	63 ± 5
Carrots, boiled	39 ± 4
Sweet potato, boiled	63 ± 6
Pumpkin, boiled	64 ± 7
Plantain/green banana	55 ± 6
Taro, boiled	53 ± 2
Vegetable soup	48 ± 5
DAIRY PRODUCTS AND ALTERNATIVES
Milk, full fat	39 ± 3
Milk, skim	37 ± 4
Ice cream	51 ± 3
Yogurt, fruit	41 ± 2
Soy milk	34 ± 4
Rice milk	86 ± 7
LEGUMES
Chickpeas	28 ± 9
Kidney beans	24 ± 4
Lentils	32 ± 5
Soya beans	16 ± 1
SNACK PRODUCTS
Chocolate	40 ± 3
Popcorn	65 ± 5
Potato crisps	56 ± 3
Soft drink/soda	59 ± 3
Rice crackers/crisps	87 ± 2
SUGARS
Fructose	15 ± 4
Sucrose	65 ± 4
Glucose	103 ± 3
Honey	61 ± 3
Data are means ± SEM. * Low-GI varieties were also identified. † Average of all available data.

The complete list of the glycemic index and glycemic load for more than 1,000 foods can be found in the article "International tables of glycemic index and glycemic load values: 2008" by Fiona S. Atkinson, Kaye Foster-Powell, and Jennie C. Brand-Miller in the December 2008 issue of Diabetes Care, Vol. 31, number 12, pages 2281-2283.

To get the lowdown on glycemic index and glycemic load, read more about it here.

American Diabetes Association, 2008. Copyright and all rights reserved. This chart has been used with the permission of American Diabetes Association.

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