I'm confused a bit. Frementation has nothing to do with atomspheric air. How do which one is the source of the gas? Also, why do you the volume is too much?
I'm confused a bit. Frementation has nothing to do with atomspheric air. How do which one is the source of the gas? Also, why do you the volume is too much?quote:I have discovered that the pain that I have been experiencing lately is caused by fermantation, my tummy growls like an angry bear, and after a while I start to have lower abdominal pains and pain below my ribs,it only subsides when I start to pass wind. I take it that it is caused by too much air.
No, the amount is normal. Even if an abnormal volume of gas is given to a healthy person, that person would not feel it. IBS caues the pain, not the gas.quote:If it is causing discomfort and nausea it is too much! Gas that distends the intestine too much IS painful. They've done research with scans during colonoscopy and recorded pain episdes coordinated with distention of the colon w/gas and with the scope looping so that is a proven. You are talking normal amounts of gas in the intestine. WE are NOT!
How do you know it is excessive? The gut normally makes some noise.quote: Mind you, we are talking excessive gas in the gut. They have a neat word for the sounds: borborygmi or some such spelling.
Correct.quote:Flux then are you saying that even though the amount of gas is normal, the fact that someone is experiencing pain from this gas is caused by their IBS? Isn't that partially what IBS is, an overly developed ability to experience sensation from the gut?