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Bloating: why is this happening?

Вздутие This innocuous at first glance, the phenomenon of bloating and stomach discomfort, may lead to serious complications whose treatment will require a lot of time and patience. Therefore, you should not ignore the presence of pain and bloating in the abdomen, especially if they occur frequently. Is no exception and bloating, the reasons for which can be very different. Symptom proper attention and timely examination. What triggers this phenomenon and how it manifests itself?

What are the symptoms accompanied by bloating?

A large number of people does not even suspect that in their gut accumulates an excessive amount of gases. Symptoms bloating starts to occur gradually, resulting in some adaptation of the organism to an uncomfortable state. But the first signs of such a disease should not be ignored. Typical symptoms of excessive gas emissions should include the following:

  • The stomach acquires a large amount;
  • In the process of palpation lying on your back you can hear the rumbling;
  • When performing standing tilts the diaphragm there is stress;
  • The appearance of periodic or constant belching after eating and some time after it;
  • Unpleasant heaviness or pain in the abdomen that occurs after eating;
  • Problem with defecation;
  • Flatulence.

To the later symptoms include a feeling of weakness, lack of appetite, low immunity, headaches.

What is the reason for the appearance of the swelling?

In certain situations, heaviness and bloating of the stomach can indicate any abnormalities, but this doesn't always happen. Excessive gas formation may occur because of eating certain foods:

  • The fermentation process will inevitably lead to copious gas evolution. To occur this process can after the use of yeast, beer and kvass. The cause of fermentation may become brown bread.
  • Legumes (beans, peas), cabbage and gases containing drinks can also cause bloating.
  • Who are lactose failure, which is bad digestion of milk sugar, drinking milk provokes profuse gas formation and nagging pain.
  • Indigestion and excessive overeating is another common causes of flatulence.

Excessive gas formation can occur due to pathologies, which include:
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  • Dysbacteriosis of the intestine, which interferes with the normal bacterial microflora. In addition to swelling, this disease canbe accompanied by diarrhea, constipation, there is also the abdominal pain after a meal.
  • A variety of infectious intestinal diseases, whose characteristic symptom is severe pain and heaviness in the stomach. To do in this case, only one thing – to immediately contact an experienced for qualified assistance.
  • In the presence in the digestive system of parasites. In addition to the flatulence, they can trigger substantial weight loss, General malaise, vomiting and indigestion.
  • Irregularities in functioning of the pancreas, liver, and also the occurrence of bowel inflammation (colitis).

What else could trigger excessive flatulence?

Some patients suffer from swelling, not because there is a significant release of gases and due to the fact that they simply are not eliminated from the digestive system. In medical science the emission of gases called "flatus". Violation of removal of gases most often indicates the presence of serious pathology – intestinal obstruction.

To manifest such a disease may in the following forms:

  • Obstructive. Is a blockage of the bowel, where gases can't go outside because of the bezoar goats and tumors.
  • Paralytic. Is associated with impaired intestinal motility.

For whatever reason neither was the release of gases and any bloating, recourse to a specialist is imperative. If at occurrence of first symptoms to do nothing, the ordinary discomfort and heaviness very quickly develop into a severe pain that will occur not only after eating. The doctor will conduct a survey and offer appropriate medication.

As evidenced by the constant bloating?

If such an unpleasant phenomenon as bloating, worries almost constantly, there is a risk of intestinal obstruction. People who pay attention to their own health, will start to make an attempt to eliminate the discomfort and pain. However, the output in this situation there is only one – the help of an experienced professional.

Constant bloating, pain and heaviness in the stomach can signal the presence of pancreatitis, the result of which is a violation of processes of digestion of food.

If swelling, heaviness and pain have cause dysbiosis, such symptoms is observed only after a meal. In this case you can do only one thing – to get rid of the disease by using drugs or other methods, appoints specialist.

What needs to be done in the intestinal gas?

Диагностика The first thing you needto do when bloating is to seek help to the doctor-gastroenterologist, which will allow for an accurate determination of the causes of this condition, and also provide a number of necessary studies:

  • Examination of the stool in which a specialist will be able to examine in more detail the intestinal microflora.
  • Examination of the bile.
  • The study of gastric juice.
  • Inspection of the digestive organs by means of ultrasonic equipment.

At home you can also make some steps that will ease the symptoms of bloating. First of all it concerns the normalization of the daily diet, which should include only proper food. Should give up beans, cabbage, whole milk and rice, which only increase the pain and heaviness in the stomach. Daily exercises will also allow you to get a positive result, however you should not do it after eating.

Also in the treatment of bloating is not highly recommended for a quick snack and drinking liquids immediately after eating. Food should be consumed effortlessly – just so absorption will take place quickly and effectively, it will not stay in the digestive system and cause the severity.

In addition to these recommendations, the physician may prescribe and a certain cure for the bloating, helps to normalize the digestive system. The reception should be held strictly according to the instructions of the specialist. Through an integrated approach to the treatment of bloating already in the shortest time possible to forget about the severity and discomfort, to regain a full and healthy life.