Increased gas production - how to avoid it?

Flatulence or increased gas formation is one of the symptoms of lower dyspepsia. This disorder in the body is accompanied by a rumbling in the abdomen and a withdrawal of gases that have a very unpleasant odor. Increased gas generation creates a lot of trouble for a person both in family life and at work. In children who are fed by mother's milk, all disorders in the work of the gastrointestinal tract are related to the state of health of the mother. If the mother has such manifestations as constipation or diarrhea, then they will also be present at the child. Increased gas production in the baby also depends on the health of the mother, and children who feed on artificial mixtures are even more prone to this disease. The child's body does not yet have a full-fledged enzyme system, so it is sometimes difficult for him to digest foods that are familiar to an adult. Parents should be cautious about the selection of food, because the processes of fermentation in the body can begin, resulting in increased gas formation in the child.

Depending on how much the internal organs of the digestive system are affected, flutulenia can be manifested by a more frequent release of gases and an increase in their volume. Also a person can be accompanied by long or short-term pain.

Increased gas formation is an early dyspepsia and therefore can occur already at the first stages of a child's life, literally from the first days. Prerequisites for its formation are disturbances in the work of the enzyme system. In connection with the fact that the body lacks enzymes, undigested food enters the lower intestine, where the processes of fermentation and decay are activated with the release of a large amount of gas. Violations in the work of the enzyme system can occur both with malnutrition and in the presence of certain diseases, for example, pancreatitis, gastritis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, cholelithiasis. Nursing mothers should be careful in choosing a diet, because in the event of the slightest disturbance in the functioning of their digestive system, the infant suffers. Often, flatulence is a comorbid phenomenon in such serious diseases as lactase and disaccharidase insufficiency.

Increased gas formation can also be due to disorders of the colon's microbiocenosis. In a healthy person, when food is split, gases are always formed, but most of them are absorbed by aerobic bacteria. If the body is disturbed by the gas-forming and gas-consuming microorganisms between them, then there are signs of flutulence.

Also, increased gas formation can be caused by such anomalies as hare lip, unshaken hard palate, tracheoesophageal fistula, hasty food, as well as conversations with food, smoking and even chewing gum. In these cases, during the meal, additional ingestion of air takes place, which leads to the death of anaerobic bacteria and may be the cause of flatulence.

Also, flatulence can provoke such foods as legumes, carbonated drinks, fermentation products, as well as those that contain coarse fiber.

But not only food intake is the cause of flatulence, this pathology can also be a consequence of various nervous disorders and emotional overload. Especially it concerns children, in whom the overexcitement of the nervous system can cause spasms of smooth muscles of the intestine. In this regard, the peristalsis slows down, and gases accumulate, stretch the bowel, and painful sensations arise.

In the treatment of flatulence, you must follow a certain diet. In addition, you need to eliminate diseases of the digestive system and restore the biocenosis of the intestine, as well as remove accumulated gases. To remove gases apply drugs that increase perelstatics, and prokinetics. Adsorbents are also used, which absorb excess gas and are eliminated from the body.