burping

[RM78]

My 5 year old daughter has been burping excessively.  She doesn't drink carbonated beverages at all.  She is embarrassed and distressed about this problem.  Any idea what could be causing it?

[LorinT]

Been burping for awhile now and found out in many cases it's helicobacter pylori.  I strongly believe it could be in my case.

After getting totally fed up with this ended up I did a "juice" fast for 3 days, actually drinking only water, and then when everything was good and empty out of curiosity tried barfing up a little stomach acid to see the consistency, amount of mucous, etc.  A little came up, but surprisingly was not acidic at all. I thought that was weird, and figured my Ph was at least off, or maybe it really was a sign of heliobacter pylori. A common approach with the naturopathic crowd is to introduce vinegar into the diet, amongst other things like teas and coconut oil that I'm not sure are totally useful. (Google ACV for more on this.)

Decided to try at least the vinegar so I slowly drank about 6 ounces of organic apple cider vinegar yesterday morning on that empty stomach, which was totally nasty and for a little while turned my tummy into a knot, but within 15 minutes finally the burping ceased completely! What a relief. And in a few hours it made its way totally through my GI tract. Based on what emerged it apparently cleaned out some fats along the way. No water, nothing else, just a really good dose of the acidic vinegar and patience. Had to stay in bed for those few hours, just rejoicing that the burping was mostly gone, and trying not to barf since it took about an hour for the vinegar to finally continue through the pyloric valve into the small intestines. Really weird sensation when it made it that far and the body started to absorb it.

I let that sit another couple hours and by this point I was really hungry. Seemed my digestive system was ready to try restarting. Thankfully was able to eat the first "real" meal I've had since this all started. Before I was only snacking through the day and then dealing with the intense burping. Now I got a good-sized meal down, with my throat still sore, and everything went along fine. Just for good measure I added a fair amount of vinegar at the end to make sure my stomach stayed acidic enough.

Perhaps at some point I should do the breath or stool test for H Pylori and see if it registers. But for the moment I'm going to add a small amount of vinegar to the end of every meal and see how it goes.

The established medical approach for this is to try a round of two antibiotics simultaneously along with a proton pump inhibitor. A hit-and-miss approach these days since there are several antibiotic-resistant strains of H Pylori going around from losers that have the same thing, start feeling better, and don't complete their antibiotics. (Losers!) Nowadays people are cured only about 30% of the time. Those that get annoyed enough sometimes go under the knife and try various heartburn surgeries, with very little positive effect. Not an option I want. Hopefully keeping the acid levels proper will be enough to keep this at bay. We'll see...

[ChitChatNine]

Many who have reflux do have excessive burping, too .. I used to call it urps, burps and slurps .. any signs of reflux at all?

If you go at the top of the page and click on health pages there is an article under FAQ's about symptoms .. maybe that may help?

Cheryl