As the saying goes, “You can’t cure ringworm from the outside, but you can’t cure asthma from the inside”, which proves the difficulty of treating asthma. “Asthma is difficult to treat because the cause of asthma is difficult to remove and most asthma medications only treat the symptoms but not the root cause, so if you have asthma, you are doomed to a lifetime of medication and can be threatened with death at any time. But there is a type of “asthma” that can be cured, and that is reflux “asthma”. As the name implies, reflux “asthma” is asthma or asthma-like manifestations caused by gastroesophageal reflux, which is an extraesophageal manifestation of GERD, mainly through the reflux of gastric contents into the laryngopharynx, stimulating the trachea and causing bronchospasm. According to the literature, about 50% to 80% of asthma patients are associated with GERD, and a significant proportion of them are directly caused by GERD, and this group of patients can completely eliminate their fatal asthma symptoms with proper anti-reflux treatment. In recent years, among the nearly 10,000 patients seen at the GERD Center of the Second Artillery General Hospital, in addition to digestive symptoms such as acid reflux and heartburn, more than 2/3 of them also had respiratory symptoms such as cough and asthma, and these patients were treated as simple allergic asthma for a long time, with counterproductive results. Gastric acid reflux into the esophagus and then continues to run down the throat can cause a foreign body sensation in the pharynx, resulting in hoarseness and repeated coughing, and even reflux asthma and respiratory tract damage. The symptoms of this disease are complex and varied, and because gastroscopy is completely normal in half of the patients, it is often mistaken for a respiratory disease. Reply to “095” to read the story of academician’s back misdiagnosis of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Patients with asthma should pay attention to whether their attacks are closely related to diet, whether they have symptoms that worsen or trigger “asthma” when lying down or bending over, and whether they have upper gastrointestinal tract diseases such as pancreatic dystrophy and gastroduodenal ulcer. If one of these conditions is present, it is very likely that the “asthma” is caused by GERD. If you have a chronic cough, coughing and asthma with symptoms such as acid reflux and heartburn, you should consider whether it is caused by gastroesophageal reflux disease, which is very common but rarely detected in time and is not easily detected.