Flatulence

The state of the body, when gases start to accumulate in the intestine, and begins to bully the stomach, is called flatulence. A meteorism can develop in any person. Basically, this happens after eating legumes, milk, potatoes, bread, vegetables. Also, the development of flatulence is influenced by eating kvass, lamb. But flatulence can still be a symptom of bowel disease. As a result of this disease, gassing occurs, and the walls of the intestine stop absorbing gases.

This can occur with the development of inflammatory diseases, with intestinal atony, portal hypertension. Also, the cause may be a violation of blood flow in the mesenteric artery. The cause of the ailment can be and aerophagia( this phenomenon, when a person swallows a large volume of air along with food).

Meteorism can be both a symptom and a companion of some fairly serious diseases, for example, pancreatitis, dysbacteriosis, chronic colitis, enterocolitis, peritonitis, gastric paresis, intestinal obstruction.

Causes of flatulence

The causes of the development of such ailment, as meteorism, are quite diverse. This disease can develop even in a newborn, when only minutes have passed since it was born. Experts consider the lack of fermentation in the human body to be the main cause of meteorism. This disrupts the digestion process. Undigested food, not received normal processing with the help of digestive enzymes, passes into the intestines. There is fermentation. It is accompanied by the formation of large volumes of gas.

Flatulence can often be a consequence of abundant and unbalanced nutrition, It can also be an accompanying ailment of diseases of the stomach and intestines.

In the formation of meteorism in the intestine, experts identify one more factor. Fruits and coarse vegetables, as well as legumes are not fully digested by the stomach. In this form, they enter the intestinal cavity, where they are split under the influence of bacteria that live in the intestines, which form gases. If everything is normal in the body, these gases are absorbed by another type of bacteria. They are called aerobes. Often, with a violation of the balance of bacteria in the intestinal cavity, develops flatulence.

Flatulence can worsen due to stress, emotional overload, chronic fatigue, overexcitation in the central nervous system.

Increased gas production in flatulence forms a foam that contains a lot of smallest bubbles. Each vial is surrounded by a viscous mucus. It has the property of settling on intestinal walls and interfering with the normal process of digestion, the active activity of enzymes and the absorption of nutrients.

Symptoms of flatulence

The main symptoms of flatulence - a swelling, felt in the abdomen, heaviness, abdominal distension. Often this ailment can be accompanied by cramping pain. It often ceases only after the gases have departed. Flatulence is also diagnosed by the frequent discharge of gases( more than twenty times in 24 hours), headache, pain in the sternum and anterior region.

According to experts, flatulence - lower dyspepsia. This ailment brings a person not only physiological discomfort, but also social. The patient often with a specific sound emits gases that have an unpleasant smell, which prevent a person from quietly working and communicating. Eventually, the disease turns into a disaster, from which a person suffers greatly.

The composition of gases that are released from a person changes. It depends on the food that he used. The composition of gases includes, mainly, ammonia, hydrogen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Unpleasant gases smell because they contain a large amount of skatole. This substance is a product of processing of hydrogen sulfide and decay of tryptophan.

Treatment of meteorism

Before starting to treat flatulence, we need to establish a factor that influenced its development. For the beginning to the addressed appoint or nominate inspection of an intestine and, certainly, a stomach. In the treatment of meteorism, several principles are distinguished.

First, establish the cause or set of factors that led to the development of flatulence. Secondly, eliminate the cause that caused the development of the disease, that is, treat the underlying disease. Third, adjust the diet, prescribing a diet that can help to avoid this ailment. Fourth, restore the functioning of the intestine. And finally, fifthly, continue to treat those diseases of the mouth, intestines and stomach, which were identified in the initial stages.

In the event of flatulence, spastic pain in the intestine, the first thing to do is to remove gases from the intestinal cavity.

The most reliable means for curing flatulence are the drugs that are able to normalize intestinal motility. This tincture of dill, fennel, caraway, as far as pharmacological preparations, then with flatulence help prokinetics drugs. Absorbing gases and the adsorbents that remove them from the intestine are very important in eliminating flatulence. This is a simple activated charcoal and polypefan.

If you have severe pain, then you can take a drug such as raglan. Cerucal and metoclopramide also help.

If an enzymatic insufficiency of the intestine is found, the patient is prescribed mezim-forte, panzinorm, festal, pancreatin.

Alas, but drugs that could save us from flatulence forever, does not exist yet. The patient will have to restore the normal level of microflora and intestinal activity for a long time. Also it is necessary to treat diseases that accompany meteorism. It is also necessary to maintain a sparing diet.

Now the newest preparations are developed, which are directed against the occurrence of flatulence. This Simethicone and Espumizan. They are composed of flint oil. It releases gas bubbles from the film and restores the absorption of gases into the intestinal cavity. This is by far the most effective drugs in the fight against flatulence and diarrhea. They are called defoamers because of their main function.