Belching Loudly🤦‍♀️

My late mother could freeze a whole supermarket with a belch! Everyone stopped what they were doing to look for the source of the noise (I would loved to have obtained a volume of measurement....). As I would have been pushing her wheelchair, I couldn't pretend that she was nothing to do with me!

However, as Aonk mentioned above, some comments here are sad.

As embarrassed as I was, I understood that my mother could not help herself. Would someone want to make such an awful noise in public? She was as mortified as I was.

As Maybee mentions above, the *Know your s*t programme - on television earlier this week - showcased someone with a similar affliction (although I would bet my little old frail mother's efforts would trump anyone else's!).

These gigantic belches are not a matter of a burb not being suppressed because the person couldn't be bothered but a genuine medical problem. If you should hear a very loud belch, please be a little more sympathetic!

I just hope this is not an inherited condition.......!

Good manners learnt in our childhood rarely leave us as we age.

That just isn't true. I have cared for my Grandad and my Mum who were the epitome of good manners when they were younger but did things you would never have believed as they got older. Later on, it became clear there was some dementia going on.

Every time my Mum stands up she farts loudly. She can't help it. She used to be embarrassed but now we joke about the angels with trumpets being around. When she first used to do it, as I was around her back end helping her to stand and turn, it was incredibly off putting and I used to wonder if she did it on purpose but now I know it is just her body playing up.

Try to be kind and if there is anything that can be done about it, let your husband deal with it gently.

Message withdrawn at poster's request.

Aonk I do sympathise. It's not funny and can cause terrible pain if you don't get rid of it.

Just as some people can't help belching loudly I just cannot eat if someone is doing this at the table
However I honestly find that if the person minimises the belch by covering their mouth with their hand and saying excuse me it's more tolerable.
Good manners learnt in our childhood rarely leave us as we age.

13:17notgran

Stop inviting him. Ignorant pig.

Thankyou for making me laugh out loud first time today 💐

My father is 96 and he does this.
Its not nice and thoroughly unpleasant at times but he really cannot help it. It is maybe something to do with acid reflux and getting old?
We give him Gaviscon but tbh that can exacerbate it.

Live and let live, there will soon be a time I will miss him and his burps terribly.

aonk agree
better out than in

There was someone in the Know Your S**t programme on Ch4 that was very embarrassed by the fact that she couldn’t stop belching. Thankfully the medical people on the programme sorted the problem out for her.

I can’t believe some of the posts on this thread. I have IBS, sometimes quite badly. It can result in both belching and flatulence which I find extremely difficult to control especially the latter. Fortunately for me I have an understanding family and sympathetic friends. It’s a miserable and clearly misunderstood problem. I feel very sorry for this elderly man.

Age is not a pass for bad manners

I am very sympathetic to this happening to older people ( no sympathy whatsoever to the younger generation who think its hilarious.. its so NOT )

As we age, our bodies change and problems arise, your FIL maybe hard of hearing and so he doesn't realise just how loud it is and also the very important fact, he may not be able to help it.

Perhaps his son could tell his dad it's not normal to belch like that and that he should see the doctor or change his diet.
If it turns out there's no good reason, except perhaps eating too much, then he can tell him it's not acceptable.

I think you should have said something kindly about when he first did it now it’s an accepted ( by you all) habit
I d very kindly tell him it’s not good but better still if his son told him

He obviously thinks it is acceptable if nobody has mentioned it.

I would ask if he is ok as he keeps belching, depending on his answer either offer him a remedy or say that you find it off-putting.

My in-laws were the same and considered it their way and that it was something only I had a problem with, even though their son would be the one telling them. They were very poorly socialised and I honestly believe never learnt acceptable and polite behaviour.
At 87, I’d suggest this to be a lost cause. Yes, offer whatever remedy you like, but it’ll probably result in upset and I’ll feeling.
Put up with it, or take a meal to him maybe?

If he can't help it , he should try and leave the room before it happens. If that is not possible he should be apologizing profusely!!

notgran

Stop inviting him. Ignorant pig.

You can’t just stop inviting him.

And what if he can’t help it?

notgran

Stop inviting him. Ignorant pig.

Of course bleaching loudly isn’t acceptable but neither is calling an elderly man an ignorant pig

I think I would offer to try and see a DR. with him. His wife had probably given up and just accepted it.

I agree with other posters NorfolkNonna offer your father in law an indigestion remedy and say you are concerned about his health. If this is a long standing habit it may be difficult to stop now he is 87.

I agree with Notgran. This is unacceptable! Speak to him or get your DH to do it. it may be beyond his control but I doubt it. I would find it extremely offensive. Old age is no excuse!!!

crazyH

In some cultures, belching is a sign of appreciation of the food that the hostess has prepared for you

I was going to post this.....

We used to reckon my MiL could probably have burped the alphabet and then some! It seemed to rumble from somewhere down her boots upwards! The DDs thought it was hilarious when they were younger.
Again, we never found out what caused it, although she ate so fast, that I said she should have racing colours on her knife and fork - that, like lots of other things I said - did not go down well!

In some cultures, belching is a sign of appreciation of the food that the hostess has prepared for you