Hello Your husband burps so much so that it hurts you. Excessive burps may be due to these possibilities , these include: 1 Indigestion. 2 Hyper acidity 3 Tension or anxiety . 4 Excessive food . Now these measures may be useful for your husband . Try raising the head of your husband bed about 4 inches with blocks.It also might help to avoid eating or drinking for 2-3 hours before he lie down.To help control burps one should not drink excessive tea or coffee or eat chocolates or spicy of greasy foods . Also give him some enzyme preparation like simethicon+fungal diastase . But if burps are severe he may need drugs like proton pump inhibitors like pantoprazole-d , once or twice in day ( normal dose is once in a day ). Sometimes burps become a habit , so talk to your husband about this also. Light food is the best while high calories food always produces burps or belch or gastritis . Hope this will help you. Good luck.