​My belly suddenly got bigger and harder

Sometimes we don’t have a very good understanding of our own physical condition, and we don’t know why our body reacts to certain things. We become even more worried when faced with the problem of our belly suddenly becoming bigger and harder. In fact, the sudden enlargement and hardness of the abdomen is most likely caused by poor gastrointestinal motility, which needs to be relieved in time. In order to ease gastrointestinal motility, the following methods are recommended.

What to do if gastrointestinal motility is poor

1. Eat regularly

Many people cannot control themselves in their diet. They eat a lot when they see delicious food, and skip a meal when they see something not to their taste. This can easily cause gastric motility disorder, and then make the nerve plexus in the stomach wall hyperfunction, promote the secretion of gastric juice, and over time, gastritis or gastric ulcer will occur. Therefore, diet should be regular and quantitative, and never overeat. People with poor gastrointestinal absorption should try to eat on time. They can eat 5 to 6 times a day. Eating small amounts can reduce the burden on the stomach and avoid excessive expansion of the stomach. Eating more frequently can keep a small amount of food in the stomach to neutralize excess stomach acid. People with serious illnesses are best to eat nutritious, easy-to-digest soft foods, such as noodles, rice porridge, milk, etc. If conditions permit, they can also eat more honey, because honey has the function of inhibiting gastric acid secretion and promoting ulcer healing.

2. Pay attention to food hygiene

When eating, you must chew slowly so that the food can be fully ground and mixed with saliva in the mouth. This can reduce the burden on the stomach and make food easier to digest. In addition, you should try to eat less irritating food, and avoid drinking alcohol and smoking. Tobacco and alcohol are very harmful to the stomach. The stimulating effect of nicotine in tobacco on the stomach will delay the discharge of gastric contents, which in turn will cause increased gastric acid secretion, causing gastritis and gastric ulcers to worsen. Drinking, especially drinking on an empty stomach, is more harmful to patients with poor gastrointestinal absorption, because the ethanol in the wine has a very strong stimulating effect on the gastric mucosa. Once the stomach is stimulated, it will experience strong contraction, expansion and other movements, which can easily cause gastric bleeding or perforation of the gastric ulcer, resulting in life-threatening.

3. Keep a happy spirit

The health of the stomach has a lot to do with mental factors. Excessive mental stimulation, such as long-term tension, fear, sadness, depression, etc., can cause dysfunction of the cerebral cortex, promote vagus nerve dysfunction, lead to spasmodic contraction of the gastric wall blood vessels, and then induce gastritis and gastric ulcers. Therefore, you should be in a good mood, have a cheerful personality, be strong-willed, and be good at freeing yourself from difficult situations.