Burping, feeling the need to pass gas or break wind, and bloating are the main symptoms of flatulence. In extreme cases of flatulence, abdominal pain may also be present.
What are the reasons for having symptoms of gas?
There are many important factors that influence the symptoms associated with gas. Among them are the amount of air swallowed, the effectiveness of the gastrointestinal tract to mobilize and expel the air or gases, and the amount of gases produced by bacteria that inhabit the colon and act on food is that is not digested completely.
In addition, each person is different in terms of their sensitivity or tolerance to normal quantities of gas retained, or passage through the gut of normal quantities of flatus gases.
Can a person swallow too much air?
It is obvious that some people swallow too much air, which enters the stomach. Eating too fast and other habits such as drinking with a straw, chewing gum, sucking sweets or using loose dentures also mean that a person swallows excess air. When a person is nervous, swallowing occurs more often and more air is swallowed.
On the other hand, several people swallow air and expel it on a voluntary basis because they have the ability to burp at will. In others, however, burping in excess learned behavior or habit, which initially could have been linked to feeling some kind of relief from symptoms of indigestion, but now continues on an almost unconscious behavior.
The swallowed air that is not expelled by belching passes through the digestive tract and, ultimately, comes out in the form of flatus through the rectum. In normal people, almost 50% of the gases expelled from the rectum are due to swallowed air. It is su
It is surprising that most people who experience flatulence and abdominal distension do not swallow or produce gas in the extreme. In these people, it seems that the mobilization of air swallowed, from the stomach to the rectum, is much slower than normal.
In addition, flatulence symptoms sometimes occur because the gases may be mobilized ineffectively and return to the stomach. So, although the amount of gas is normal, people can experience abdominal distension and feel the need to pass gas because the flatus gases have not been mobilized effectively. This abdonimal distension also causes discomfort resulting from the stretching of the intestinal walls.
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