By: Jason Maxwell
Submitted: 2010-11-02 21:41:41 | Word Count: 458
When you eat plenty of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains, your digestive tract stir up a naturally large amount of gas. Oats, beans and potatoes hold a surplus of fiber and carbohydrates. These function as sustenance for bacteria that are a natural flora of your digestive system. Bacteria excretes gases such as methane, carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and nitrogen. In turn, the gases are excreted by the body. This is natural.
Nevertheless, some conditions do create flatulence excessively, such as gallstones, peptic ulcers, stomach infections, lactose intolerance (unable to digest milk), food allergies, and irritable bowel syndrome (bloating, stomach pain, gas, and irregular bowel movements all combined). Swallowing air excessively during chewing can also trap gas.
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Here are some tips to minimize passing gas.
-A drop or two of ginger, peppermint, or cinnamon extract is mixed in a cup of water, stir then drink. These extracts will loosen up the muscles found in the esophagus, in turn letting the gas out. You can find these in a number of stores that sell health food.
-Avoid eating food hat produce excess gas such as corn chips, pretzels, wheat germ, bacon, gelatin desserts, popcorn, bagels, fruit juice, pastries, graham crackers, bran, potato chips.
-Eat small snacks frequently, like a bird, instead of three large meals in a day.
-For the lactose intolerant, try products with special enzymes for breaking down sugar. Or try yoghurt, which have digestion bacteria, and hard cheeses like cheddar.
-Try activated charcoal, which detoxifies and prevents formation of gas, test out which time would be better before or after meals. However, avoid using it moer than 2 weeks without a doctors supervision.
-Try taking antacids after meals.
-Try using products for beans that counteract gas production. They use an enzyme in liquid form that aids in breaking down fiber in beans averting excessive gas.
-Try anti-gas products that are available over the counter. Their action is draw small gas bubbles into large ones that can be burped.
-Monitor your problem by writing down what you ingested when it occurs. If you do this, you may notice a pattern from it and pin down the food causing flatulence.
See your doctor if you have abdominal pain or weight loss coupled with gas.
It is no cause for alarm if flatulence is stinky, that would only signify that methane gas, which has an unpleasant odor, was a by-product. Flatulence is completely normal in considerable amounts. Yet people are worried that they are generating an excess of it.
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