Abdominal Distention
“It looks like I’m pregnant!” Marge exclaimed. She has been treated for abdominal distention and bloating for over three years. “Every time I eat anything I immediately get bloating. My abdomen fills up and I can’t eat anymore. It gets so pushed-out that I feel like I’m nine-months pregnant! It’s frustrating… and very uncomfortable – I can’t eat anything!” I think, “how odd that she has been ‘unable to eat anything for three years’ and has been on very restrictive diets, but she is overweight – she is still able to eat too much.” This tells me it isn’t a food sensitivity, infection, or intestinal problem. People who actually have intestinal problems lose weight when they can’t eat. Abdominal bloating affects 10-30% of any population. [i] At some time in their lives, almost everyone will feel bloated. Many people experience the same type of bloating again and again. The standard answers from a gastroenterologist would tell us that bloating is due to one of the following conditions:...
