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Home remedies for gas pain
Gas pains can be really troublesome. The pain can be so intense that you feel it’s serious illness. The following passage provides you with the possible home remedies for gas pain relief, causes and symptoms to help you acknowledge the problem.
Causes of gas pain:
- As we eat or drink we also swallow air. Sometime we may swallow air when we are nervous. This air finds its way into your lower digestive tract.
- One of the main causes of gas pain is when bacteria in your colon, ferment carbohydrates that are not digested in your small intestines.
- Even some of healthy foods such as, beans, peas and whole grains can cause gas to form, as these foods are high in fiber.
- Dairy products consumption can also cause gas formation. It may be because your body is not able to break down the sugar (lactose) in dairy foods.
- Use of certain medicines such as antibiotics and constipating drugs, also cause gas pain as they disrupt the normal bacterial flora that live in your bowel (part of the intestines).
- Artificial sweetener like sorbitol and mannitol found in some sugar-free foods can also cause excess gas if your system cannot tolerate it.
- Do eat in a hurry. Eating when you are on the run and under stress can interfere with digestion process and cause gas.
- Smoking can also increase the amount of air you swallow.
Symptoms of gas pain:
The primary gas pain symptoms includes sharp pains and jabbing cramps in your abdomen and these pains can change location quickly. Sometimes the pain is so intense that you feel it is serious illness like a heart problem, back pains and many others. This generally occurs when gas builds up in your intestines and are not expelled. The voluntary or involuntary passing of gas, either as belching (burp) or as flatus (gas generated in or expelled from the digestive tract) is also symptoms of gas pain.
Home remedies for Gas pain:
Top home remedies for gas pain for gas pain relief are:
- Make a mixture of ginger powder, pounded carom seed(ajwain) and black salt in equal quantities. Take the mixture after meal (1 gram) for fast relief from gas pain.
- Take a small piece of ginger. Sprinkle a few drops of lemon juice over it. Add a pinch of black salt and take this while you are having meal.
- Make a powder out of cinnamon and boil it in a glass of water. Take this while it is warm half hour before meal. This will prevent the formation of gas.
- Make a powder out of 2 grams of Asafoetida (hing) and mix it in a glass of warm water. Take about 20ml of it twice a day.
- Try teas with peppermint, chamomile or fennel to relieve gas pain. Peppermint contains menthol, which appears to have an antispasmodic effect on the smooth muscles of digestive tract. This is one of the most effective home remedies for gas pain.
- If you have a severe pain try lying on your back, pulling your legs up to your chest. This can help to expel your gas. This is an immediate home remedy for gas pain.
- Avoid consuming foods that affect you the most, such as high-fiber foods, dairy products, soda content drinks, beer, and other food products that cause excess gas.
- You can temporarily cut high-fiber foods and gradually build up the intake over the weeks.
- Eat several small meals instead of eating two or three larger ones a day.
- One of the simpler and effective home remedies for gas pain is to increase the amount of fluid you drink, especially water.
Avoid these Gas Causing Foods:
- Baked beans
- Vegetables: Brussels sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, broccoli, onion
- Chewing gum
- Whole grain: whole wheat
- Fruits: apples, peaches, pears
- Sorbitol: Sugar free candies, gums
- Carbonated drinks
Prevention from Gas:
- Eat Slowly: Eating fast can interfere with proper digestion of food.
- Walk: Walk for a minimum of 500 mtrs after meals.
- Reduce Fatty Foods: Digestion is slow if you take lot of fatty foods.
- Avoid Food: With trial and error method you can find which foods affects you most. Avoid them.
- Reduce Smoking: While inhaling smoke you can swallow air too hence avoid it for quick relief.
- Straw: Avoid straw while drinking. You might swallow air while using straw for drinking liquids.
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Let me know if you have any ideas.
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place a paper bag over the stain and iron over the paper bag
Use a blowdryer to loosen the candle wax.
Were u eating the candle when trying to stop this gas or did u fart and blow over the candle?
laying down usually allieviates the pain, sitting is better than standing which usually is so painful i get doubled over. ive been getting gas pain issues more and more lately but cant pinpoint why. some things are certain, i wont drink beer anymore. some times its hard to tell what caused it. eating small amounts of food is safer than large meals. Any suggestions? enzymes? acidolpholis?
i have gas pains but it feels as if it is in my chest area it is difficult to breathe
tiffany – im suffering from the exact same thing. someone told me i might be lactose intolerant but that doesnt explain everything. onions, red meat, bear, dairy, large meals, eating after skipping a meal, all these things seem to cause problems for me. It like im alergic to food. If you find any solution please let me know!
-joey
Try looking up the yoga pose Child’s Pose on Google images. This has been helping my husband illeviate gas pain lately.
I’m experiencing very serious gas pain after eating and drinking water. Please help
Joey,
Bear is not a good meat to eat. its high in grizzliness and causes overdosing of honey stashes. i would discontinue its usage immediately.
also Segun,
maybe stop eating water. its meant for drinking. eating it causes excess air to be sucked down into your personal colon vortex.
lol, Tim. And what’s with the candle wax person?
Anyway, my husband has some of the worst, smelliest, painful gas. I’m trying to find simple remedies that the average person might have around the house. The baking soda works for his heartburn, but no luck with over the counter gas relief medications. I will see if he’ll eat ginger… And never thought about lactose intolerant… Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. ~AJ
for AJ try ginger tea, it really work for me I had gas pain for 18 years.the tea test better as icetea.
I have had these and it usually is a result of too little water- dehydration and too much high acidic foods like hot salsa and such. Sometimes it takes a day or so for me to fell the effects of the poor diet but once in a while when the pain starts it can be flooring. The best thing you can do is keep a box of chewable fast acting Gas-x extra strength. This is works so fast- matter of 10 to 15 minutes and stops the pain. The other answer is to eat a balanced diet and try to reduce stress, to prevent this from happening as much.
if you’re having a pain in your chest as well it could be GERD, look it up on webmd.com
Yes, my gas usually works it’s way to my lower back if that makes any sense. Also I find my chest gets really heavy when I have bad gas. I just ate Coriander seeds, hopefully that will work, I read it on another site. This forum is hilarious too…Timothy you’re a comedian!
I drank ginger tea during a really stressful time and it prevented the usual painful gas. Now i know why. I should have had some this morning, hence while I’m on my back reading up on a solution.
I took gas x 20 min ago, not working too well.
Lying on my back is a more comfortable position.
I’m going to try Baking Soda and lay off the X-Large Salads(like the one i ate yesterday), and stop inhaling breakfast (like i did this morning).
baking soda not a good idea. you might get rid of the gas, but then the salt in the baking soda is not good for your blood pressure.
i am having very bad gas pains and cant think or talk to anyone! i feel like someone is taking my insides out. any suggestions? PLEASE
Some of the over the counter supplements helps people in gas pain. Digestive enzymes helps in digesting foods and people could eat foods that otherwise could have caused gas. Lactaid, Lactrase, Beano are examples of these supplements which could help people suffering from severe gas problem.
Chewing the foods properly before eating it helps in better digestion of the foods. If you do not chew the food properly then this would create extra gas which is going to hurt you. It is all about habits as some people have a habit of not chewing the food and eating everything fast. Another important herb that helps in gas is dandelion. Dandelion since centuries is helping people with indigestion problem. Make a tea out of dandelion leaves and take it 2-3 times a day to have faster relief. Dandelion is primarily a bit sour so you might mix honey to it. Another important home remedy for gas is Parsley. Just take it raw after your food.
My 2yr old son suffers from horrible gas pains on a daily basis. His stomach becomes so distended it is scary. You can actually feel the gas bubbles in his stomach by putting your bare hand on it.
The drs think he is suffering from IBS-PI (post infection), as a result he has these gas pains. It is so sad to watch. I give him 1 regular strenght Gas-X, which does not seem to be helping.
Any advice for someone do small? He alfo takes a digestive enzyme with each meal, that doesn’t seem to be helping anymore.
Any advice would be so helpful.