Zhonggao Wang, Zhiwei Hu, Jimin Wu, Feng Ji, Hongtao Wang, Yungang Lai, Xiang Gao, Yachan Ning, Chengchao Zhang, Zhitong Li, Weitao Liang, Jianjun Liu
At the very time of global paying the highest attention to the worst insults of smoking as well as haze on the airway, everybody knows both are exogenous and noticeable. However, people mostly, including many medical personnel, do not know how badly the gastroesophageal reflux (GER) insults on our own airway. Symptoms of GER are commonly seen as heartburn and regurgitation, which can be mostly tolerated. However, when the up going gastric content reversely passes the esophagus and then the distal pharynx, where it appears a beak like stricture, serving as a nozzle, so as to produce numerous micro-particles and reach the oro-nasal cavity and also the airway causing allergic rhinitis and asthmatic attacks, even pulmonary parenchyma lesions...
March 2015: Frontiers of Medicine