Gargling With Alkaline Water For Lpr

I am sure you have heard about alkaline water and its list of potential health benefits.

Gargling with alkaline water for lpr.

Jamie koufman and dr. Support forums gerd acid reflux new topic reply. You still need to fix the reflux itself. Treatment of laryngopharyngeal reflux lpr with alkaline water and the mediterranean diet may be as effective as treatment with proton pump inhibitors ppis according to research published online in jama otolaryngology head neck surgery in september.

Thus the consumption of alkaline water may have therapeutic benefits for patients with reflux disease it was that paper started the alkaline water. Potential benefits of ph 8 8 alkaline drinking water as an adjunct in the treatment of reflux disease by dr. It seems logical that drinking alkaline water can and will help with acid reflux by simply lowering the acidity of the stomach though for lpr it is a little more complicated than just that. Some people show improvement by drinking or gargling alkaline water while others show no improvement at all.

Of course one of these benefits being to help acid reflux and more importantly lpr in our case. Gargling for lpr symptoms. Support forums gerd acid reflux. Alkaline water for lpr initial success.

Disappointed but more patient and hopeful on the alkaline water sip it or gargle it but don t chug it as your main water source especially with meals tempting but you need some acid in stomach to reduce fermenting food. Alkaline water can be one step in the direction of symptom resolution. It s a staple of the alkaline diet and promoted by celebs like miranda kerr for its supposed health perks among those perks is the. In addition it has good acid buffering capacity.

Nikki johnston annals of otology. The paper concluded unlike conventional drinking water ph 8 8 alkaline water instantly denatures pepsin rendering it permanently inactive. Like gastroesophageal reflux disease a similar condition lpr occurs when acidic gastric juices in the stomach back up into the esophagus. Hi cmcuk i know exactly what you mean i felt much better when i read somewhere that lpr takes longer 6 months average to heal.

You have to try it out. You may have noticed the buzz about alkaline water recently.