My ENT thinks I have LPR and I am taking Prevacid and Xantac. I have allergies and chronic post nasal drip.

I have had a never ending post nasal drip since I was little I need to know this one thing to possibly determine what exactly is going on.

If I had chronic post nasal drip ever since I was little that is constantly going down into my stomach 24/7 will it cause stomach problems or GERD.

Is there actually EVIDENCE of this. Have studies been done that actually prove this? I really need to know so when I go back to my ENT we can treat this properly.

Post nasal drip is one of the symptoms of LPR. I would never have guessed that since I always associated it with allergies or sinus infections. I do think that many people with LPR also suffer from allergies but the post nasal drip can definately be coming from the acid. I have heard that your body produces more phlegm and saliva to protect itself from the acid. I see it as another annoying symptom I have to put up with! I know that when it's really bad it can upset my stomach. I try not to swallow it but I can't always help that.

Good luck at your next appt.

if that is true, can someone go into detail and explain how and why the body creates more mucous and saliva because of acid? Acid is in the stomach and the throat so what kind of protection would the mucous and saliva do.

Is it possible for acid to go that far up even into the nose? Wouldn't you feel it?


Maybe the post nasal drip is blocking the acid from going too far up in the throat?

anyone please

Hi & BUMP!

I would like to know the answer to that question also. I use Nexium and most of the time it works. But, if I eat the wrong thing at the wrong time, here comes the chest pain!

Like now - I ate beef at 8:30 pm. My additional med, along with the Nexium, are up to 4 Pepcid Completes, sitting up very straight, for acouple of hours. Also, when I take my nexium in the morning, I take it 30 min. to 1 hr, before eating or drinking anything except water!

I hope this helps and that someone has the answer to the other questions.

Wannabe

oh by the way......the topic title is suppose to read "GERD/LPR problems caused by post nasal drip."

sry lol

I'll try to figure out a way to send a short version of what our bodies do to protect itself (quite amazing) but producing more mucus is one way to protect cells from damage. I get PND bad from LPR then all of a sudden it will go away. It comes back on and off thru out the day though. Maybe it's trying to protect my sinus? If so, not doing a very good job but this is been going on for years.

Charla

Mucous and saliva are indeed ways for the body to protect tissue. In this kind of case, it's probably just reacting to an irritant - the acid - or specifically, the damage that the acid has caused.

As for PND causing stomach problems - I would have to say, YES. If you've ever had some kind of major cold or flu, you've probably experienced lots of that gunk being swallowed much less simply flowing into your tummy. Too much of that makes me feel queasy; at the very least as if I have too much liquid in the gut. I think this is especially true if you have some kind of sinus infection - surely the infected stuff is not helping your tummy feel normal.

You're asking whether the chicken comes before the egg. We don't know generally - and it may be it can be either way. Personally, I have had PND for decades - it's my genetics (Dad is bad with that). But I NEVER had the horrors of constant silent "burping" until just the other year, which led to nausea in some cases and very often to a sore throat most of the time. In my case, I don't think PND caused GERD/LPR. I think sometimes the GERD makes my PND worse than it normally is.