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Home Remedies Indigestion Gas and Pain

Indigestion Gas - The Intestinal Indigestion Gas, Bloating, Burping and Pain

Everyone passes intestinal gas which is a combination of oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide and methane. But some people have excessive indigestion gas which not only bothers them in the form of bloating, belching, burping, flatulence and pain but also embarrassing them.

Passing gas on important occasions like corporate meetings, on your first date in a crowded elevator or other such places can be really embarrassing. Also in some cases when you are unable to expel it, it causes intense and intermittent pains.

 

Most people  expel 1-4 pints of gas every day during 12-14 episodes. This is normal but many people think they are expelling more gas. The gas is expelled in the form of a burp through the mouth and fart through the rectum.

 

Farts or burping which has no objectionable odor is nothing but the excess pockets of air you have swallowed. But the Gas with objectionable odor is certainly coming from the undigested food which is rotting in your gut.

Every time we eat or drink we swallow air. Some of it goes  into the lower intestine causing gas.  When this gas is expelled it has no odor. However the gas caused by the bacteria due to rotting of undigested food in the intestine has different type of objectionable odors depending upon what is causing it.

Interestingly most of the healthy food like fruits, vegetables, whole grains beans and nuts are the main culprit.The reason is fiber. Fiber in food is good for health by keeping the digestion system in order, maintaining blood sugar and cholesterol levels and stopping heart attacks etc, but also causes gas.

Other food products that causes excessive gas are dairy products. Lactose which is a kind off sugar in the dairy products is the main cause for it.

Some of the objectionable excessive gases are caused by illnesses like food poisoning and stomach flu and chronic diseases like  IBS or inflammatory bowl and various types of intestinal ulcers.

Gases caused by Constipation and diarrhea can lead to sharp jabbing pain because you are unable to expel the gases. This type of pain some times gets confused with the heart attack.

Avoiding or reducing the consumption of the foods that cause gas in your case will help. Also chewing food rigorously is a healthy habit that helps digestion hence reducing the possibilities of the food rotting in the intestine.

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