Medically reviewed by Alicen Nelson MD, MPH Relieving excessive burping involves moving around, changing positions, or ...

Burping is usually harmless, but sometimes there could be something else going on. In some cultures, burping after a meal is the highest form of flattery. In China, for example, a belch tells the chef ...

That seemingly harmless burp after lunch might be trying to tell you something important. While everyone experiences an occasional belch after a fizzy drink or big meal, doctors warn that frequent ...

Burping — also known as belching — is a common bodily function that helps to release excess air swallowed during eating or drinking. While occasional burping is a normal part of the digestive process, ...

Last week, scientists presented an image of a supermassive black hole burping—twice. The behemoth had guzzled on gas before belching out a cloud of high-energy particles and settling in for a few ...

Sorry in advance for this truth-bomb, but: Burps are basically just farts that come out of your mouth. Okay, they're cuter and don't normally smell like butt-farts do (bless up), but at the end of the ...

Burping or belching, a natural bodily function, releases the audible escape of the buildup of air from our stomach through our mouth. This excessive burping can be an alarming sign of underlying ...

Medications and tests offer no answers for a U.K. woman who cannot stop burping. March 6, 2009 — -- Jean Driscoll, 72, was a healthy, active retiree, busy volunteering as a school governor and at ...

There's nothing more eye turning than a loud and (sometimes) obnoxious burp. We could either be ashamed or proud, depending who you are. But what about those burps that keep coming up and never seem ...

A burp is an onomatopoeia, a word from a sound associated with the thing it describes (like sizzle and ping-pong). While a burp can be a short utterance, there is so much more to appreciate about our ...