What causes belching, nausea and vomiting

Belching is commonly known as burping or burping after a meal. If this phenomenon occurs occasionally after a meal, it is caused by eating too fast and swallowing a lot of air. It is a normal phenomenon. If belching occurs frequently, you must pay attention to it. When belching occurs, it means that there are some problems with the digestive function of the spleen and stomach. You need to adjust your eating habits in time or go to the hospital for examination.

What should you pay attention to when you have belching?

① Avoid eating raw, cold and indigestible food. Also be careful to eat less sweet and sour food, because sweet food can fill up the stomach and easily cause belching.

② In daily life, you should pay attention to keeping away cold and moisture, and avoid getting cold. In particular, you should protect the stomach to prevent the Zhongyang from being damaged.

③ Pay attention to regulating your temperament, don’t hold grudges, be cheerful, and be willing to resolve the tedious matters you encounter in life, instead of keeping them in your heart.

④At the same time, actively treat spleen and stomach diseases to ensure early recovery. This is also a positive measure to prevent belching.

Symptoms of belching

1. Food stagnation and belching: accompanied by sour and rancid odor, muffled belching or nausea, discontinuous belching, chest and abdominal distension, loss of appetite, sour and rancid odor in stool or constipation, thick and greasy tongue coating, and slippery and solid pulse.

2. Belching that is deep and intermittent, without a sour or rancid odor, and accompanied by poor appetite, is mostly caused by stomach deficiency and qi reflux, which is common in the elderly or people with long-term illness and physical weakness, and is a deficiency syndrome.

3. Belching is deep and intermittent, without sour or rancid odor, and is accompanied by poor appetite. This is mostly due to weak stomach and qi reflux, which is common in the elderly.

4. Belching due to weak spleen and stomach: intermittent belching, weak belching sound, vomiting of clear water, loss of appetite, pale or sallow complexion, pale tongue with thin white coating, and weak pulse.

5. Liver Qi invading the stomach and causing belching: frequent belching, loud belching, chest tightness and discomfort, dull pain in the ribs, thin white tongue coating, and wiry pulse.

Causes of belching

1. Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)

Bile reflux gastritis, eating too much, the stomach cannot be emptied on time, food accumulates in the stomach for too long, causing belching. Some GERD patients do not have common typical symptoms such as heartburn and reflux, but may have atypical symptoms such as belching, chest pain, upper abdominal pain, and upper abdominal burning sensation.

2. Mental stress

Depression can also affect the sympathetic nerves, making them overly tense, inhibiting the gastric motility and emptying function, causing stored food to remain in the stomach for too long, leading to the production of fermented gas.

3. Bad diet and lifestyle habits

Eating too much radish, potato, sweet potato, chestnut and other foods, or staying in bed for a long time, working at a desk for a long time, and lack of physical activity can also affect gastric emptying.

4. Gastric outlet obstruction

Belching is a common complication of duodenal ulcer, also accompanied by upper abdominal distension and discomfort, anorexia, nausea and vomiting.

5. Hiatal hernia

Belching often occurs after eating and is often accompanied by heartburn, acid regurgitation, and abdominal bloating. Patients often complain of dull pain under the sternum or in the precordial area, which may also radiate to the shoulder. Other symptoms include difficulty swallowing, nausea, weight loss, difficulty breathing, shortness of breath, coughing, and bad breath.

6. Peptic ulcer

It is a common disease that often causes belching. The basic symptoms are heartburn and burning stomach pain. Duodenal ulcers cause pain on an empty stomach and in the middle of the night, which can be relieved after eating or taking antacids or drugs to reduce secretions. Gastric ulcer causes pain half an hour after a meal and is relieved before the next meal. Accompanying symptoms and signs include difficulty swallowing, nausea, vomiting, black stools, abdominal distension, feeling of fullness, and upper abdominal tenderness.