Hiccups after meals are usually divided into physiological factors and disease factors. Physiological factors are normal and do not need to be treated. Pathological factors include chronic gastritis, gastroesophageal reflux disease, and gastric ulcer resulting from which you can go to the hospital for examination to clarify the cause and then treatment. Common causes and treatment I. Physiological factors: Occasionally, hiccups occur after meals, mainly due to stimulation of the diaphragm when eating and swallowing saliva, water or food. In addition, eating too fast or too quickly, eating food that is not easily digested, or eating or talking at the same time can cause a large amount of air to enter the mouth and then overflow from the stomach, causing hiccups after meals. This is a normal phenomenon and requires no special treatment. If you drink hot water appropriately, the symptoms of hiccups will be relieved and disappear. Second, disease factors: 1. Chronic gastritis: When H. pylori infection, viruses or other irritants cause inflammation in the stomach, it stimulates the nerves in the gastrointestinal department, affecting gastric acid secretion, and the body is unable to absorb the flatulence in the stomach, thus expelling it in the form of hiccups. For example, those who lack stomach acid or have no acid can be treated with dilute hydrochloric acid or pepsin combination, and those who have indigestion can be treated with digestive enzymes to help digestion. You need to keep your spirit happy, quit smoking and avoid alcohol, and avoid eating too acidic, too spicy and cold, indigestible food. 2. Gastroesophageal reflux disease: when the stomach contents return upwards, burping may occur, and patients can take acid suppressants and gastrointestinal motility drugs under the guidance of a doctor. 3. Gastric ulcer: patients with gastric ulcer will have gastric motility disorders, accompanied by pain in the upper abdomen, and the gas in the stomach cannot be absorption, leading to burping after meals. The treatment should be under the guidance of a doctor, applying acid suppressants and mucosal protectors, etc. If there is H. pylori infection, it needs to be eradicated by quadruple therapy.