A pregnant patient with excessive belching

Dis Esophagus. 2016 Aug;29(6):688-9. doi: 10.1111/dote.12076. Epub 2013 Apr 16.

Abstract

We present a patient that developed severe belching during pregnancy. Esophageal pH-impedance monitoring revealed frequent supragastric belching, but not gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). Thus, severe belching during pregnancy can be due to a behavioral disorder in the absence of GERD. Belching complaints during pregnancy should therefore not always be treated as GERD.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Electric Impedance
  • Eructation / diagnosis*
  • Esophageal pH Monitoring
  • Female
  • Gastroesophageal Reflux / diagnosis*
  • Humans
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications / diagnosis*