A settled stomach
Abdominal bloating
Also searched as Abdominal bloating.
You want it gone, and the honest reading matters here. Bloating is a sensation; distension is a measurement. Gas-challenge studies separate them deliberately, because a treatment can accelerate gas transit and ease the symptom while abdominal girth does not move. Any claim on this node must say which of the two it moved.
In depth
Abdominal bloating and visible distension — the feeling of trapped gas and fullness, and the measurable increase in girth that sometimes accompanies it. The two come apart: a trial can relieve the sensation and leave the waistline unchanged.
What drives it
Moves everything along reduces it.
In constipation-predominant IBS patients studied with 24-hour inductance plethysmography, those with delayed orocecal or colonic transit showed significantly greater abdominal girth than those with normal transit, so slower gut transit produces more objective distension while faster transit relieves it (the subjective bloating score itself did not differ by transit). doi 10.1038/ajg.2009.251 · PMID 19491831
Blends that modulate it
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