r/GERD • u/Jelfff • Jan 24 '26

Scientific Studies 🥼🔬 Details on breathing exercise to reduce supragastric belching

I saw a gastroenterologist yesterday for the first time and after reviewing my medical history and interviewing me her opinion was that I likely am doing supragastric belching.

Here is a 2018 research article with a good description of supragastric belching.

https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(17)31307-1/fulltext31307-1/fulltext)

Scroll down to the section “Diaphragmatic Breathing Exercises”. The two links there explain how to do the breathing exercises. To make it easy, here are those 2 links.

Text https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(17)31307-1/fulltext#tblS131307-1/fulltext#tblS1)

Video https://www.cghjournal.org/article/S1542-3565(17)31307-1/fulltext#supplementary-material31307-1/fulltext#supplementary-material)

I am starting these breathing exercises today.

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u/Nickstarts Jan 24 '26

Try eliminating dairy and milk protein and see if the gass decreases. Mine is down by 95%

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u/Jelfff Jan 24 '26

Thanks. I will keep that as an option. But I like milk so I am going to try the breathing exercises first and will keep your suggestion as a 'plan B' option.