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Suggest Treatment For Excessive Gas In Stomach
I would love it if you could help me figure out how to cure my excessive wind.
I've been a farter since a child. Bad, rancid smelling, bum burning farts that linger for hours it seems. They apparently smell strongly of sulfur. Sometimes I'll pass large amounts of vile smelling gas every 5-10 minutes for a couple of hours. I've also always been a hiccupper, usually about three of them, then I burp and they go away, although they're staying longer as I get older (I'm 39).
The farts happen most regularly in the evening and some in the mornings, but they've also come at all times of day less frequently. I have been told I have IBS, which seems to have worsened over about the past year.
Usually with a bout of IBS I would have pain in the abdomen, accompanied by inability to pass stool for a short period, followed by feelings of nausea, and then diarrhea. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to vomit. Over the past year there have been three occasions where I actually did forcefully vomit while having an attack.
For about three weeks now I have been experiencing a pain in the same spot on my right mid side. I have completely stopped drinking caffinated tea and coffee, I don't drink soda, I don't drink alcohol and my diet is pretty good, and I don't smoke. My body sometimes can't tolerate potato chips.
The pain in my side comes and goes and I haven't yet figured out anything connected with it.
I usually drink a lot of water during the day and urinate frequently.
Please let me know if I need to provide any further information.
Thank you very much for your help.
I've been a farter since a child. Bad, rancid smelling, bum burning farts that linger for hours it seems. They apparently smell strongly of sulfur. Sometimes I'll pass large amounts of vile smelling gas every 5-10 minutes for a couple of hours. I've also always been a hiccupper, usually about three of them, then I burp and they go away, although they're staying longer as I get older (I'm 39).
The farts happen most regularly in the evening and some in the mornings, but they've also come at all times of day less frequently. I have been told I have IBS, which seems to have worsened over about the past year.
Usually with a bout of IBS I would have pain in the abdomen, accompanied by inability to pass stool for a short period, followed by feelings of nausea, and then diarrhea. Sometimes I feel like I'm going to vomit. Over the past year there have been three occasions where I actually did forcefully vomit while having an attack.
For about three weeks now I have been experiencing a pain in the same spot on my right mid side. I have completely stopped drinking caffinated tea and coffee, I don't drink soda, I don't drink alcohol and my diet is pretty good, and I don't smoke. My body sometimes can't tolerate potato chips.
The pain in my side comes and goes and I haven't yet figured out anything connected with it.
I usually drink a lot of water during the day and urinate frequently.
Please let me know if I need to provide any further information.
Thank you very much for your help.
posted on
Fri, 14 Mar 2014
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Thu, 27 Jul 2017
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Hi.
Thanks for your query.
Noted the history and understood your concerns.
Your detailed history about rancid, bad smelling farting and pain in right side of abdomen need a detailed evaluation:
Stool tests for three consecutive days.
Ultrasonography of the abdomen followed by a Contrast enhanced CT scan.
Blood tests for CBC, thyroid and liver function tests.
If there is an infection get a course of an antibiotic active against intestinal infection, metronidazole and your problem may lesson till you get the instigating factors to restart this again.
Hence find out the foods and beverages for example the nuts of any types, aerated drinks that can instigate or enhance the problems and you will be fine.
You have to then strictly avoid such foods.
This is the mainstay of the management.
Use only boiled for 20 minutes water to drink and eat only homemade fresh food.
No outside food at all.
Thanks for your query.
Noted the history and understood your concerns.
Your detailed history about rancid, bad smelling farting and pain in right side of abdomen need a detailed evaluation:
Stool tests for three consecutive days.
Ultrasonography of the abdomen followed by a Contrast enhanced CT scan.
Blood tests for CBC, thyroid and liver function tests.
If there is an infection get a course of an antibiotic active against intestinal infection, metronidazole and your problem may lesson till you get the instigating factors to restart this again.
Hence find out the foods and beverages for example the nuts of any types, aerated drinks that can instigate or enhance the problems and you will be fine.
You have to then strictly avoid such foods.
This is the mainstay of the management.
Use only boiled for 20 minutes water to drink and eat only homemade fresh food.
No outside food at all.
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