Burp Syndrome” that makes it impossible for someone to burp – and what happens then? The condition is officially dubbed retrograde cricopharyngeal dysfunction (R-CPD), and affects the cricopharyngeus ...

Burping releases this air from the top part of our digestive tracts. So when a baby cries after a feed, many assume it's because the child needs to "be burped". However, this is not necessarily true.