Table 1.
Symptoms of GER (-disease)
| Usual manifestations | Symptoms possibly related to complications of GER* |
| Specific manifestations | |
| Regurgitation | Symptoms related to anaemia (iron deficiency anaemia) |
| Nausea | Haematemesis and melaena |
| Vomiting | Dysphagia (as a symptom of oesophagitis or due to stricture formation) |
| Weight loss and/or failure to thrive | |
| Epigastric or retrosternal pain | |
| “Non-cardiac angina-like” chest pain | |
| Pyrosis or heartburn, pharyngeal burning | |
| Belching, postprandial fullness | |
| Irritable oesophagus | |
| General irritability (infants) | |
| Unusual presentations | |
| GER related to chronic respiratory disease (bronchitis, asthma, laryngitis, pharyngitis, etc.) | |
| Sandifer Sutcliffe syndrome | |
| Rumination | |
| Apnea, apparent life threatening event and sudden infant death syndrome | |
| Associated to congenital and/or central nervous system abnormalities | |
| Intracranial tumors, cerebral palsy, psychomotory retardation | |
A number of these symptoms may also be caused by other mechanisms.