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By Rudy Silva
Asthma is a chronic lung condition that is characterized by difficulty in breathing, wheezing, and mucus accumulation. People with asthma have extra sensitive or hyper-responsive airways. During an asthma attack, the airways become irritated and react by narrowing and constricting, causing increased resistance to airflow, and obstructing the flow of the air passages to and from the lungs.
Some research indicates that the symptoms of asthma may get worse when you have heartburn or reflux. reflux occurs when your undigested stomach content moves back up into your esophagus.

Acid reflux can cause painful heartburn which you can relieve with antacid medicines or natural remedies. Antacids simply neutralize your stomach's acid, which reduces the burning sensation in your esophagus tube. It is best to use natural remedies first because neutralizing stomach is a temporary method and only serves to suppress the cause of reflux.

For reflux, it is best to use digestive enzymes. Take a good digestive enzyme with every meal you eat. The next step would be to learn how to eat so you don't get reflux or heartburn.

Acid reflux happens mostly in people who are older and overweight. But sometimes it can happen in children and in all types of people.

In some studies, researchers have injected into the esophagus of people with asthma, and it had a significant impact on their asthma and increased their asthma symptoms.

There is also evidence to suggest that people who have asthma get reflux more often than people without asthma. This is probably because of the big pressure changes in the chest during breathing in people with asthma. These high pressures could force liquid to travel the wrong way up the esophagus.

In these cases, asthma sufferers seem to lose out twice: they suffer from asthma and they may suffer from

reflux more often than non-asthma sufferers.

However, this is not the whole story. If reflux really was an important cause of asthma worsening, then treatments against reflux should make the asthma better, however, this is generally not the case.

In the meantime, if you have asthma and you also have reflux, it could just be that careful treatment of your reflux will make your breathing better.

If your asthma is bad and no one knows why, some doctors would check whether you have or had reflux by conducting tests to measure the acidity in your stomach. If the result showed a tendency for reflux, then your doctor should help you eliminate this condition.

Using a doctor who uses natural methods to treat reflux is the best way to go. Using drugs to eliminate reflux when you are already taking drugs for asthma is asking for addition health problems in the future. Drugs do not cure reflux but cause the condition to worsen. It is best to use natural remedies and diet to eliminate reflux and heartburn.

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About the Author:
Rudy Silva
Rudy Silva is a Natural Nutritionist. To learn more about using natural remedies for asthma go to: http://www.natural-remedies-thatwork.com/asthma1and to find natural ways to help your reflux or heartburn go to: http://www.acidreflux-relief.info