How can we minimize flatulence problem? What should we avoid in food?

Question

I am having this problem for a month, though I do not take dry foods neither I have acidity. Please help how to control this too much of burping?

Answer 1

here are examples of gas-forming foods you should avoid: carbonated drinks like coke, chewing gum, cabbage, cauliflower, and always chew your food very well. also moving around gently after you eat will promote peristalsis which will help excess air faster.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Take homeopathy pills Lycopodium-30 4 pills three times a day for about 15 days. You have mentioned the word burping. If you are belching too much, if the air is passing out from the mouth, then you take Carbo Veg 30. If the air is going from down (Farting) take lyco.

Answer 4

Flatulence is the fermentation of undigested food in the large intestine, the main culprits are being lactose intolerant - avoid milk and dairy for a while to see if this helps. Other culprits can be carbs such as beans. For more details check : www.howstuffworks.com/question46.htm

Answer 5

Go to the health food store and purchase Acidopholus capsules. Ask for the best ones. Take one in the AM and one at night. Take them for 2 weeks. The gas should stop in a couple of days, but will come right back unless you take the Acidopholus for 2 weeks.
Also, if you minimize your Carb intake (pastas, breads, sugars) that will help quite a bit.
Good luck.

Answer 6

do not drink water during eating your food and immediately after meals... give a gap of half an hour and then drink water... your problem will go...

avoid pickles, deep fried food and saturated fats for few days...

Answer 7

Avoid foods such as lentils, peas, beans.

Answer 8

Take Beano.

Answer 9

Flatulence, Abdominal Bloating and Intestinal Gas
"Beans, beans, the musical fruit, the more you eat the more you toot." (Traditional childhood dietary advice)


Call it what you will, flatulence, intestinal gas, wind, tooting, farting or flatus, one fact is constant: We all pass gas. Flatulence is the subject of elementary school humor, the bane of the socially sensitive, an embarrassment and one of the most natural of body processes. Intestinal gas is usually harmless, although capable of causing abdominal bloating in some people

Causes of Intestinal Gas and Flatulence
Eighty to ninety percent of flatulence results from bacterial metabolism. The intestines are crowded with helpful bacteria that aid in digestion. Bacterial metabolism produces the basic ingredients of intestinal gas: hydrogen, methane and carbon dioxide.

Some of this intestinal gas is diffused into the blood and exits quietly through the lungs. Intestinal gas in the stomach often escapes as belching, an embarrassing, but somewhat more socially respectable alterative to flatus. But a hefty chunk of bacteria-generated intestinal gas exits as flatulence.

Eating certain fruits and vegetables increases the chances of flatulence. The list of flatus producing foods includes:

beans
broccoli
brussel sprouts
cabbage
cauliflower
cucumbers
melons
onions
radishes
turnips.
Carbohydrates are the most effective (or notorious) wind generators. Some people are simply better able to digest carbohydrates than others, explaining how a bowl of chili can cause abdominal bloating in one person, and no symptoms of intestinal gas at all in another.

Heredity and Flatus
Heredity plays a large role in flatulence. Intestinal bacteria levels seem to be higher in some families than others. When excessive flatulence has a hereditary cause, wind makes itself known early in infancy and continues throughout life.

Medical Causes of Abdominal Bloating and Flatus
A number of intestinal health problems cause excessive flatulence and abdominal bloating. Malabsorption syndromes such as gluten intolerance or lactose intolerance can cause painful abdominal bloating and gas if the wrong foods are ingested.

People with irritable bowel syndrome, pancreatic insufficiency and tropical sprue can also experience general abdominal bloating and flatulence.

"Better out than in, I always say." (Shrek, ogre and flatus advocate)


Diagnosing Excessive Intestinal Gas
Many people feel their level of flatulence is excessive and seek medical advice. Like bowel movements, however, there is no "right" amount of intestinal gas or flatus frequency. While fourteen episodes of flatulence a day is considered average, flatus production varies among individuals.

Regular or severe bloating may indicate one of the medical causes listed above, and should be reported to a doctor. Flatulence is generally not considered indicative of a medical problem unless one of the following factors is present:

sudden development in abdominal bloating or pain
change in the frequency or severity of flatulence
onset of flatulence or abdominal bloating after age forty.
"Fart proudly." (Benjamin Franklin)


Silencing the Storm: Reducing Flatulence
Okay, so intestinal gas is natural. That's little comfort in a crowded elevator. How do you minimize flatus production?

Medications for flatulence don't exist. Antispasmodic drugs can alleviate symptoms of abdominal bloating associated with intestinal gas, but their negative effect on the eyes, bladder and bowels limits their usefulness.

Lifestyle changes are the best methods available for reducing flatulence. Keep a food diary to determine which foods trigger excessive intestinal gas so you can avoid or limit their consumption. Eat a regular, well-balanced diet, and stick to a regular exercise and sleep schedule.

Avoid swallowing air. While most swallowed air returns as belching, a certain amount inevitably finds its way into the intestines. To avert swallowing air, avoid the following:

drinking carbonated drinks
chewing gum
sighing deeply
drinking from water fountains
inducing belches
wearing poorly fitting denture
smoking
using straws
sucking hard candies.
Other flatulence and abdominal bloating reduction strategies include:

chewing food properly
not lying down after eating
not overeating
drinking normally, without gulping or sipping
eating slowly
not washing food down with a drink
wearing loose, comfortable clothes.
The Last Word on Flatulence
Intestinal gas and flatulence seems to bring out the elementary school kid in people, like the eight-year-old who finds flatus simultaneously gross and hilarious. Even medical professionals aren't immune to this effect. No less respected a publication than the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy ends its otherwise scientific explanation of flatus with the following, tongue-in-cheek observation, which was published in earlier versions of the manual

"Flatulence, which can cause great psychosocial distress, is unofficially described according to its salient characteristics: (1) the "slider" (crowded elevator type), which is released slowly and noiselessly, sometimes with devastating effect; (2) the open sphincter, or "pooh" type, which is said to be of higher temperature and more aromatic; (3) the staccato or drumbeat type, pleasantly passed in privacy; and (4) the "bark" type (described in a personal communication) is characterized by a sharp exclamatory eruption that effectively interrupts (and often concludes) conversation. Aromaticity is not a prominent feature. Rarely, this usually distressing symptom has been turned to advantage, as with a Frenchman referred to as "Le Petomane," who became affluent as an effluent performer who played tunes with the gas from his rectum on the Moulin Rouge stage

Answer 10

Take less of carbohydrates, more of fibres, have walk both time of day.