Gastroesophageal Reflux Treatment in Infancy Through Young Adulthood

Abstract

Gastroesophageal reflux treatment varies greatly across the pediatric age spectrum. Infant reflux treatments rely heavily on nutritional interventions, whereas reflux in older children is treated more commonly with medications. However, because of the broad differential diagnosis, treatment nonresponse merits a re-evaluation of the diagnosis being treated and additional testing to provide a more precision-medicine approach to care.

Exploring GI Diseases Across the Lifespan

“…A child cannot be approached as a small adult, and similarly, an older adult has unique issues that are distinct from younger individuals (4,5). Diagnostic dilemmas, screening strategies, medication delivery, pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, and communication between patients, families, and providers are some of the major issues encountered by clinicians (6)(7)(8)(9). In addition to medical care, the extremes of age also bring cost and healthcare delivery concerns, which several of our published articles focus upon (5,10,11).…”