If your voice sounds hoarse and you can’t stop clearing your throat, you may have a frequently overlooked form of acid reflux.
One in 10 people who see a throat doctor have laryngopharyngeal reflux (LPR), a type of acid reflux that causes sticky enzymes normally in the stomach to travel to the throat and voice box, leading to other symptoms like chronic coughing and trouble swallowing.
However, the condition goes largely undiagnosed, which is why it has been nicknamed ‘silent reflux.’
As many as 30 million Americans could be living with LPR to varying degrees.
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