How Long Until Reflux Subsides?

[EBsMom]

I'm asking this question on behalf of my 9 yo daughter. Her main symptom, and the reason we put her on a gluten-free diet, was reflux. She had a dry cough, occasional regurgitation, and a full time "lump" in her throat (that's what she called it.) Within 2 or 3 days of going gluten-free, her cough and the "lump" had decreased; when I noticed that her cough increased a couple of days later, and I realized that she'd eaten a lot of dairy that day, we also removed casein from her diet. It's been nearly 3 weeks since then, and her cough had nearly disappeared....until yesterday. It's not a bad cough, but she's had it on and off since yesterday....and she says that the "lump" is there, but in a slight way. So....

I don't *think* she's getting any gluten/casein that I don't know about, but still, that was my first thought - that she'd been glutened somehow (or caseined.) Of course, I could just be an anxious mother, who construes everything in terms of her reflux/gluten intolerance, lol! I wondered, though - for those of you who had reflux as a symptom - did you have a linear recovery (meaning only getting better, with no relapses) or was it up and down? If you get glutened, do your reflux symptoms return? Thanks in advance for any insight!

Rho