Drugs and gastroesophageal reflux: not always effective and with some risks
Paediatricians have always dedicated great attention and several diagnostic-therapeutic tools in order to tackle the gastroesophageal reflux, especially in early childhood.
The most recent literature has scaled down the problem, attributing the gastroesophageal reflux to its paraphysiological nature and highlighting the few situations where the gastroesophageal reflux could really become a disease (the so-called gastroesophageal reflux disease, GERD).1,2