Why is my stomach so bloated?

Gastrointestinal diseases are very common nowadays. For some office workers, irregular diet and lack of time will cause gastrointestinal diseases. After discovering such a disease, timely treatment is required, otherwise the condition will be very serious and difficult to control. Many people are not clear about why their stomachs are bloated. This is also a type of gastrointestinal disease. The following is a detailed introduction so that you will know what to do when it occurs.

When there is excess gas in the gastrointestinal tract, it causes bloating. The increase in gas in the gastrointestinal tract is mainly due to the increase in the amount of gas entering the gastrointestinal tract from the outside, the increase in the amount of gas produced in the gastrointestinal tract, and the decrease in the amount of gas absorbed and excreted by the gastrointestinal tract.

Causes of abdominal bloating.

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Food fermentation

Consuming a large amount of food containing high sugar (starch), such as taro, potato, sweet potato, pumpkin, lotus root, corn and beans, etc., will cause the food to be stored in the stomach, which can cause fermentation and produce a large amount of gas.

Swallowing large amounts of gas

Patients with aerophagia or intractable hiccups, long-term mental stress, and anxiety often swallow large amounts of air at the same time due to repeated belching, nausea, or swallowing of saliva. In certain pathological conditions, such as intestinal obstruction, the patient's abdominal pain causes weakened abdominal breathing, which speeds up breathing, and a large amount of air enters the gastrointestinal tract through the mouth as the breathing speeds up.

Gastrointestinal obstruction

When there are obstructive lesions in the gastrointestinal tract (pyloric obstruction, complete or incomplete intestinal obstruction, etc.), gas will accumulate in the gastrointestinal tract due to the difficulty in expelling gas from the anus.

Drug effects

Taking excessive amounts of drugs such as sodium bicarbonate and calcium carbonate may produce carbon dioxide in the stomach and cause abdominal bloating. After using large amounts of antibiotics, if normal intestinal bacteria are suppressed and intestinal flora changes, food may ferment and produce excessive gas.

Helicobacter pylori infection

After the stomach is infected with Helicobacter pylori, the motility function of the gastrointestinal tract can be affected, which manifests as delayed gastric emptying and weakened gastric contraction after meals. Therefore, the excretion of gastrointestinal gas is delayed and abdominal distension occurs.