LPR in child

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I just found out that my 8 year old son has LPR and I'm very worried about him. He's having a very hard time eating anything solid and has had many episodes of gagging and choking on mucous. Just last night he almost choked on a cough drop that he had in his mouth for a sore throat. All I can get him to eat is yogurt, pudding, soup or carnation instant breakfast-just soft easy to swallow things. He's been extremely thirsty and is constantly clearing his throat very loudly. He has also began to be hoarse sounding in the morning when he wakes up. And looking back, there were times over the last couple of years that he had horrific tummy aches, the type that doubled him over and made him scream in pain. I wonder if it's all connected? Is all of this normal? His doctor first said that it is gastrits, but after research I found his symptoms matched LPR more. Do I need to take him to an ENT also? I hope this isn't something he'll suffer from for the rest of his life. And then when I read that it could turn into serious issues, like cancer, I really worry.....
 
Severe reflux in a child (not a baby) is unusual. Has the doctor confirmed that's what it is? Has he had an endoscopy to try to figure out exactly what is going on?

The difficulty swallowing suggests there's something wrong with his esophagus, either an injury from the reflux or or an actual disease of the esophagus.
 
According to the food groupings provided to me by a doctor, it looks like your son is on a high-acid diet:

yogurt -- listed in the Lowest Acid category, but I bet it has sugar in it which pushes the acid up
pudding -- listed in the Most Acid (worst) category
soup -- would need to know ingredients to determine whether it is acid or alkaline
carnation instant breakfast -- probably high in sugar which likely makes it high acid

See this post for a listing of acid and alkaline fooRAB: http://www.healtrabroadoarRAB.com/boarRAB/showthread.php?t=763999

There's nothing in your son's diet that is for sure alkaline and that can neutralize the acid from the other fooRAB.

I recommend the following: Go to the store and buy watermelon, sweet potatoes, yams, cantaloupe, honeydew and other fooRAB from the Most Alkaline and More Alkaline columns. Have your son eat mostly those fooRAB for a couple of days and see if it helps.

Are your son's nuraber twos floating? If not, then he may be getting too much Omega 6 fat and not enough Omega 3 fat. Salmon (wild caught salmon is best), sardines in water, and flaxseed (ground flaxseed is easiest to eat) are great sources of Omega 3. Try to limit his fat from all other sources (e.g., cooking oil, meat, junkfood, etc.) as most all other sources of fat will have too much Omega 6.

If the problem is too many acid-causing fooRAB or too much Omega 6, then your son should get relief in just a couple of days by eating more of the high alkaline fooRAB and high Omega 3 fooRAB (while at the same time limiting high-acid fooRAB and high Omega 6 fooRAB).

I'm 39 now, but when I was a kid I ate tons of Pop-Tarts and was always thirsty. I think the human body uses water to try and neutralize the acid from high acid fooRAB which make those of us on high-acid diets constantly thirsty. I find that I'm not nearly as thirsty now that I am eating a high-alkaline, low-acid diet.

If you can, don't let your son eat anything for a couple of days that's been made by man -- this would include yogurt, pudding, and carnation instant breakfast. You want him to eat high alkaline whole fooRAB that have been taken directly from the Earth and not processed.

Soup may be OK if you make it yourself and are very careful about what goes into it. For example, if the soup has olive oil in it, then that is adding a lot of Omega 6 to his diet. People think olive oil is healthy, but it actually has 13x as much Omega 6 fat (inflammatory fat) as Omega 3 fat (anti-inflammatory fat). Compare that to salmon and sardines which have 12x as much Omega 3 (anti-inflammtory fat) as compared to Omega 6 (inflammatory fat) or ground flaxseed which has 4x as much Omega 3 as Omega 6. Adding sugar to the soup is going to spike up the acid.
 
An ENT would help if it is just LPR, but you might want to try finding a pediatric Gastroenterologist. They could evaluate the entire digestive system.

Is your son on any medication to help treat his symptoms?
 
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