Everyone’s had acid reflux before, it’s not a pleasant thing but most people pop an antacid and get on with it. For some people however, the condition is quite a lot more serious than that and instead of the average four refluxes a day they can be refluxing anywhere up to fifty times.
It’s recently been shown in several studies that excessive acid reflux can actually bring about adult-onset asthma and cause the chronic condition to take root in people who’ve never suffered from it before in their lives. In a lot of cases you might not even know you’ve got acid reflux as symptoms don’t always reveal themselves as obviously as you’d imagine. Sometimes the discomfort and sour taste which is often accompanied by the condition doesn’t emerge and people find that asthma appears and they’ve no idea why.
Adult onset asthma is a bit of a mystery as, though there are lots of theories about the possible provocations of the condition, nobody’s entirely sure why it occurs as and when it does. Acid reflux is thought to expose the lungs to a fine mist of acid which, over the course of weeks or months could cause asthma to emerge. It’s unclear if people need to be predisposed to it for this to happen or if in actual fact everyone is at risk of contracting the condition.