
Child Has Mild Cough. Prescribed Medicine For Allergy. Worried For Acid Reflux

Thank you for your query. I understand your concern. Let me provide you with some information on a condition causing acid reflux, called GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease).
Stress is not a risk/triggering factor for GERD. Although risk/triggering factors do include smoking, passive smoking is highly unlikely to cause GERD (although mildly possible). More importantly, GERD has more common and obvious symptoms like:
-Chest pain
-Heartburn (burning sensation in center of the chest, sometimes spreading to the throat)
-Difficulty swallowing
-Dry cough (not persistent though; on and off)
-Regurgitation of food into the throat and/or mouth
-Hoarseness of voice
-Feeling of something in the throat
If you have noticed a few or all of the above symptoms in your granddaughter, you could take her to visit a doctor. Diagnosis is usually made by monitoring 24-hour acid in the esophagus and a chest x-ray. Treatment is simple and easy.
If your grand daughter has only persistent cough, this could most probably be a respiratory condition requiring medication removal of the stimulus (or allergen) causing irritation.
Feel free to write back to me for any further clarifications. I would be glad to help.
Best wishes.

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