How does the inability to burp affect daily life?
Burping in public is not only embarrassing, but people who are unable to release gas from their stomach are unfortunate in other ways. The inability to burp, officially called “retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction (R-CPD),” is caused by the failure of the throat’s cricopharyngeal muscle to relax and allow the outward passage of gas. A burp or […]
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