Yesterday i had one of my clients ask me why her stomach makes loud noises? This is an interesting question, as from time to time we all hear our stomach's talking to us. The term used to describe such noises is called “borborygmus”. The word borborygmus is known as an onomatopoeia; a word created to sound like the noise or event that it represents. The Ancient Greeks were the first to use the word in effort to describe the sound made by a hungry stomach.
Borborygmi- the growl or rumble occurs most often when we are hungry,
or just after we have eaten a meal. It originates in the stomach or upper part
of the small intestines as muscles contract to clean house, moving food and
digestive juices down the digestive tract. The intensity of sound differs
according to the intensity of the contractions and the contents of the stomach
and intestines.
Borborygmi is not an inherited trait or condition. It is possible
(whether you realize it or not) that you suffer from alactasia
(or lactose intolerance) – an inherited condition
causing the lack of the enzyme needed to digest milk sugar.
Try modifying your diet and see if you get better results.
If you eliminate milk and milk products (cheese,creams, etc.) from your diet
for a few days you may note a dramatic drop in the frequency (no pun intended)
in the noise or it may stop altogether.
Otherwise, for the time being at least if this embarrassing situation happens
to you in the library, or some other quiet setting where others can hear it,
a temporary solution that sometimes helps is to apply a bit of pressure to
your abdomen or simply slip a cracker or cookie into your mouth to “fool”
your stomach into believing that there is more to come.
Both of these solutions seem to work for most people.
2 comments:
is there any other solution other than cutting down milk products? because I have tried that and it didn't work out! and i really have very loud stomach noises that are embarrassing, so if you could please give me some other solution. and do you think that i should see a doctor?
thanks
If your stomach is still making noises after eliminating certain foods from your diet, then noises refer to the break down of foods and motility through the intestinal passages. From a chinese medicine perspective it can relate to a number of phenomenon. Your digestive may be weak and this in turn causes the stomach to work overtime to breakdown the foods. or you may have wind lodged in your intestines. I suggest a diet consisting of foods warm in nature and prehaps see a chinese medicine practitioner.
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