• April 19, 2024

The gas or flatulence They are a very uncomfortable problem for many people because they tend to appear at the most inopportune moment.

These uncomfortable travel companions are produced by swallowing food, which is a natural process.

However, it is one thing to feel a 'little gas' from time to time, but having them in excess may signal a disturbance.

According to an investigation with the National Institutes of Health, an average person has 14 times a day intestinal gases .

Steven Edmundowicz, MD, chief of endoscopy at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, alerts people to the presence of excessive gas.

So they do not run away ...

Bacteria out of control

Bacteria ferment the food we have eaten. This is called intestinal bacterial proliferation. The most convenient thing is for you to do a stool for a gastroenterologist to analyze.