Heartburn and Acid Reflux Relief Blog

It is usually believed that too much of swallowed air is the culprit behind excessive burping, but a new study conducted by researchers from Netherlands and Belgium and published in the latest issue of journal ‘Gut’ has challenged this age-old belief.Most people burp three or four times after a normal meal, but the people in [...]

Acid reflux is a condition when your lower esophagus sphincter (LES) is not closing completely or relaxing more frequently than normal. This causes heartburn and burping.
There are couple simple methods to avoid burping too much:

Reduce carbonated soft drinks intake. Air in them will cause a lot of burping.
Milk products can also cause burping.
Cut down on caffeine. [...]

That is a hard one… I really think that air swallowing is one of key contributors to lots of digestive system disorders. Big problem is that we do it completely unconsciously. One way to see how often you swallow air is just to have a sheet of paper nearby and write an X every time you [...]

I just wrote an article which summarizes my knowledge about aerophagia.
Here is an excerpt from it:
Aerophagia is defined as a condition when a person swallows too much air. This air is usually goes to the stomach. People with Aerophagia are believed to have excessive belches due to air swallowing. You probably also heard terms like [...]

Since excessive burping (or some called it chronic belching) happened to me a lot of times I always was curious why the heck it happens. Recently I was reading through some forums and wanted to share ideas on that subject with my readers:
- You’re to anxious/nervous. Yeah – sound quite usual. But it is the [...]

I just read this quite an interesting topic about uncontrolled belching and burping. It looks like this area of medicine is very undeveloped and lots of people don’t receive any help when going to docs.

According to following study belching is not the cause of acid reflux. So if you belch more it won’t make your heartburn worse. Researchers measured how many times people with heartburn belch versus people with healthy stomach. Patients with gerd had 287 occurences of air swallow why healthy people had 176. Also patients with gerd [...]