Flatulence or increased flatulence is one of the symptoms of lower dyspepsia. The specified violation in the body is accompanied by rumbling in the abdomen and the exhaust of gases, which have a very unpleasant odor. Increased gas production creates a lot of trouble for a person both in family life and at work. In children who are breast-fed, all violations of the gastrointestinal tract are associated with the state of health of the mother. If the mother has such manifestations as constipation or diarrhea, then they will also be present in the child. Increased gas formation in infants also depends on the health of the mother, and children who eat artificial mixtures are even more susceptible to this disease. The child’s body does not yet have a complete enzyme system, so it is sometimes difficult for him to digest foods that are familiar to an adult. Parents need to be careful about the selection of food products, since fermentation processes in the body can begin, resulting in increased gas formation in the child.
Depending on how affected the internal organs of the digestive system, flattening can manifest itself with a more frequent release of gases and an increase in their volume. Also, a person may be accompanied by long or short-term pain.
Increased gas formation is an early dyspepsia and therefore can occur even in the first stages of a child’s life, literally from the first days. Prerequisites for its formation are disturbances in the enzyme system. Due to the fact that the body has an insufficient amount of enzymes, undigested food enters the lowest parts of the intestine, where the processes of fermentation and decay are activated with the release of a large amount of gas. Disturbances in the functioning of the enzyme system can occur both with malnutrition and with certain diseases, for example, pancreatitis, gastritis, cholecystitis, hepatitis, gallstone disease. Nursing mothers should be careful in the selection of a diet, since in case of the slightest disturbances in the functioning of their digestive system, an infant suffers. Often flatulence is a concomitant phenomenon in such serious diseases as lactase and disaccharidase deficiency.
Increased gas formation may also be due to impaired microbiocenosis of the colon. When a healthy person breaks down food, gases always form, but most of them are absorbed by aerobic bacteria. If the body breaks the balance between gas-forming and gas-consuming microorganisms, then there are signs of flatulence.
Also, increased gas formation can also be caused by such anomalies as cleft lip, unshrunken hard palate, tracheoesophageal fistulas, hasty food, as well as talking while eating, smoking and even chewing gum. In these cases, during ingestion, additional ingestion of air occurs, which leads to the death of anaerobic bacteria and can cause flatulence.
Also, flatulence can provoke such foods as legumes, carbonated drinks, fermentation products, as well as those that contain coarse fiber.
But not only eating is the cause of flatulence, this pathology can also be a consequence of various nervous disorders and emotional overload. This is especially true for children in whom an overexcitation of the nervous system can cause spasms of the smooth muscles of the intestine. In this regard, peristalsis slows down, and gases, accumulating, stretch the intestine, while pain occurs.
When treating flatulence, you must follow a certain diet. In addition, it is necessary to eliminate diseases of the digestive system and restore the intestinal biocenosis, as well as remove the accumulated gases. To remove gases, drugs that increase perilstatic and prokinetics are used. Adsorbents are also used that absorb excess gas and are eliminated from the body.