Sulphuric/ Eggy burps and stomach cramps

[lilsavage]

I found the above  topic last night at this same forum, though its dated 6 yrs back and I couldnt find anything more recent as I was searching for an answer to my own problem of the foulest burps that ever existed, then comes the diarhea and finally the vomitting. For me this can last up to two or three days. I was so relieved to find that other people have and are experiencing these same symptoms. Though im worried that no one has found and answer, maybe they have, as I said, the only forum I found for this is on this web site and its 6 yrs old. Im hoping someone has some new answer to this same problem. Its dibilitating when it happens, hard to go to work while im busy crapping and puking myself to half to death. Again, the burps are the absolute worst, those alone taste so bad its enough to make me sick and the sulphuric smell is just awful. Really its like im farting out my mouth. Hopefully after 6 yrs someone has some kind of real answer to this problem.

Thk you.

[BerthaJ]

I have found that it does indeed help to change the diet and to eliminate several foods (dairy being one of the main ones).  But mostly I have been helped by avoiding any foods with sulfites, whether in the preservatives or naturally occuring(such as potato chips).  You see-- I've found that I have sulfite sensitivity which causes me not to be able to convert hydrogen sulfide(rotten egg) smelling sulfites into odorless sulFATES.  In addition, I continue to use a mouthwash that kills s. moorei. I've had to replenish and straighten out my nutients, also!

[Buffy]

Wow, I just goggled and found these posts.  My four year old has been having these horrific smelling burps and I feel so bad for him.  He had reflux and projectile vomiting as an infant and grew out of it when he was a tot.  A week ago, he started having these foul odor burps and threw up green mucus stuff.  He had been to an Awana Christmas party and eaten some cookies that the kids frosted themselves.  I assumed that this is why he got sick...  eating too many cookies or too much frosting.  However, he continues having these burps.  He has severe allergies and takes allergy meds daily.  After reading these posts, I am going to call his pediatrician and also may take him to see a good friend of mine that is a nutritionist.  Please let me know if you have heard of anyone this young with these symptoms.  
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[BerthaJ]

Thanks for sharing.  Sorry about your little boy.  You know-- I had heard something similar about a baby on one of those "Medical Mysteries" or "Mystery Diagnosis" shows that comes on the Discovery Health channel and sometimes on The Learning Channel.  I forget what the details were, but the baby was cured.  I wish there were some way to get in touch with that show.

[drumbumcw]

well i just went through all the posts and it still seems that we dont really have a conclusion to this, i mean it's like all over the board. i'm suffering from this as i write here today. and i'm fed up. i never use to be sick at all, very seldom did i ever get the flu not till just about three years ago. I was with some friend playing basketball and i noticed some nasty burps at the time it's funny i could only describe them as if i just burped up some bad lucky charms cerel. it went on for a few hours just the burps then stomach pain and very violent vomiting occured it seemed to last about 24 hours.but then your body is so exahausted it takes another 24 hours just to get back to yourself. since then three years ago i get it at least once every six months.once even putting me in the E.R. for dehydration and sever stomach pain like none i've ever wittnessed the worse thing about this is before the worst happens it always begins with the nasty burps.and you just know hell is on it's way it's like theres nothing you can do to stop it. i've tried it all.  not that it matters cause we still can't come up with a solution,will list my symtoms. cause it did help ease a little bit to see that other people expierecne the same thing.

Nasty burps(rotten egg) (lucky charms)
diarrhrea
violent vomiting( bile) when no food left to throw up.
sweats
weakness-
I also have had my appendix taken out about 5 years ago. i dont know if this means anything or not.just another commonality with others on here. i've also noticed in the last few years a lot of sinus drainage.i once had this problem when i was a kid from about the age of 5 to 10 then it disappeard.but now it's back. don't know if there a connection there either.i guess i will try to change my diet. see what happens with that. good luck to everyone who is suffering. lets help each other find a solution to this madness.

[Velvet1]

I was fascinated to read all your comments here (thanks :) as I have in the last year returned from India where I had EXactly all the above for the first time (trigger?).

I had to very reluctantly eventually resort to fierce antibiotics to shift it. I have just spent Christmas in London and yep it returned with a vengeance for 24 hours whilst there :( Starting with the bloating or slow emptying stomach, then the foul sulfuric burps, massive watery diarrhoea etc...ending with the vomiting of bile and an instant feeling of having then 'got it out'! *phew :)*

I have always being sensitive to certain foods so I designed a specific two week exclusion diet that really works to address which foods trigger. I am always happy to share this diet with anyone who asks so contact me on my myspace site or here :) However, over the years and being reasonably healthy you tend to get a bit complacent and start eating food stuffs you probably shouldn't, what you all say above in the main makes perfect sense.

Anyway, just wanted to add my experience of same.

[AB108]

I was looking at an interesting book in the bookstore the other day that outlined a specific diet for people's blood types. Ironically, the items that it recommended to exclude from my diet are the ones that I suspect are causing my egg burp, etc. I am blood type A and the recommendations the book had for proper digestion and avoidance of digestive problems were things like avoiding tomatoes, corn, lots of dairy, large amounts of red meats (it recommended more fish, but only certain types), certain beverages (recommended drinking green tea and coffee), wheat products (recommended eating whole grains), processed sugars and chocolates, and some other things that I forget right now. I'm considering going back to buy the book because I think my digestive system will thank me for it. Interestingly, it commented that Type A blood is iron deficient (which I have been all my life) and recommended certain vegetables etc that are high in iron that can help me. It recommended peanut products and spinach, broccoli etc as acceptable forms of iron ingestion that will not upset my slow digestive system (which, by the way, is also a characteristic of Blood Type A). I was literally blown away by this book, as you can see, and perhaps it could help a few others who are suffering from the Egg Burp condition to find a reasonable diet without the trial and error or frustrating, time-consuming food diary.