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Both myself and my teenager have to occasionally fight bouts of acid reflux; worst is that it is Laryngopharyngeal reflux, or 'silent reflux'. The main tip off of acid reflux is the heartburn. With silent reflux, the acid that would typically sit in the esophagus and give that 'burn' actually makes it all the way up to the larynx and throat. The esophagus is designed with a protective coating, to an extent, to protect itself from acid for obvious reasons. However, the throat and larynx don't have those coatings, so when the acid makes it up that far, a lot more damage is done. In addition, it can reek havoc with the sinus' as well as some of it can make it all the way up there. Needless to say, whenever we have one of these attacks, it's not pretty. It usually takes about 2 weeks to fully recover, and in the meantime it's hard to sleep from the coughing fits and the sinus issues, and we will sometimes loose our voice a bit if it's particularly bad. We've both found alkaline water to help tremendously with the pain and discomfort of this reflux. While regular water cools our throats as it's going down, within a few minutes, it's uncomfortable again. With this water we've found that at least a bottle a day for 2-3 days really helps improve the recovery time by 3-5 days and makes the pain much more bearable. I highly recommend it to anyone I know who suffers from any sort of reflux. Here's a link to the study done on potential benefits of alkaline water and reflux. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22844861