Bloating:
Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments
Causes and Symptoms
Abdominal bloating can be annoying, uncomfortable and embarrassing. The feeling of fullness accompanied by intermittent sharp pain can interfere in our day to day activities.
There are a number of causes of abdominal bloating. Primarily among these are eating too fast, swallowing air while chewing, and talking while eating. Some people are naturally intolerant to lactose which means that consuming milk and other dairy products cause them to develop abdominal bloating.
You don’t have to be lactose intolerant for diet to play its part in bloating. Other foods have been found to contain increased gas inducing properties too. These include potatoes, corn, cabbage, Brussels sprouts, cauliflower and wheat. If you suffer from abdominal bloating, make sure that you take these foods in moderation. Salt is known to cause puffiness in the body. Fats and red meats are also known culprits.
But there’s another cause that is hidden deep inside your insides which can give you that uncomfortable bloating sensation.
Over a period of years, the colon collects a lot of waste matter that it hasn’t been able to expel from the body. When the diet lacks fiber, the body isn’t able to push all digested matter out of the body. Some of it will likely stay behind, sticking itself to the walls of the colon and creating a welcome environment for bacteria and toxins to accumulate. The warm and wet environs are perfect for the production of gas and when too much of it is accumulated it pushes out against the abdomen resulting in a telling bulge on your stomach.
Another one of the main causes of abdominal bloating is constipation. People who have irregular bowel movements are more prone to the feeling of being full and distended, and all the grief that comes along with those symptoms. Irregular bowel movements are in turn, caused by an inability of the body to expel waste from the body in a natural way. Even some one who follows a healthy diet and takes his 5 servings of veggies a day might find that he feels bloated and uncomfortable all the time. The reason for this is simple. The body is only able to expel some of the waste that is produced after digestion. A substantial amount of hard hitting toxins remain in the body, and the body is not able to purge them all. In such people, avoiding abdominal bloating does not involve avoiding dairy products, taking brisk walks or avoiding gas causing vegetables. The root cause of their abdominal bloating is constipation, and until this is taken care of they will continue to suffer from distension, and pain.
Treatments and Prevention
When indigestion and constipation are the main causes of abdominal bloating, a remedy would need to correct the problem, not the symptoms. If you’re used to guzzling bottles of antacid syrups and have not seen much of an improvement in your symptoms, you need a laxative based preparation that will help your bowel movements become regular so your insides can remain clear and free. When this happens, you will find that the abdominal bloating too subsides as a natural reaction.
If you experience that uncomfortable bloating feeling that’s typical of an abdomen distended by excessive gas, there are certain treatments that might temporarily alleviate the problem.
– If you find yourself unable to sleep because of the overriding sensation of gas pushing up against your vital organs, lie on your side and bring your feet up to your chest.
– Take short walks after meals to aid digestion.
– Remember to chew food thoroughly while eating, and take small mouthfuls. This will ensure you ingest lesser amounts of air which can cause bloating.
– Cut out gas causing foods like beans, broccoli, wheat and cauliflower from your diet. If you can’t tolerate dairy products, give those a miss too.
The above are just some ways you can deal with bloating, or prevent it. If these don’t help, and you find anti-gas medication isn’t working, you might need a more intensive treatment program to give you relief.
DrFloras® Colon Cleanse is 100% natural, so you don’t have to worry about side effects that are typical of allopathic remedies. It gets to work as early as a couple of days into the program. Once the undigested matter has been flushed out of your system, you’ll notice that the constipation and bloating disappears too.
Bloating doesn’t have to severely restrict your personal or social life. Start a colon cleansing program today, and rid yourself of unwanted gas.
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