Gas pain

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  • DeficitDuchess
    DeficitDuchess Posts: 3,099 Member
    edited August 2016
    Laying on my stomach, relieves the pressure & thus makes my house smell awful!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,348 Member
    Yoga pose downward dog usually does the trick. Gas bubbles to the highest point!
  • hereforthelolz
    hereforthelolz Posts: 51 Member
    Update: I put a couple drops of peppermint oil on a teabag before brewing the tea, and the pain basically disappeared within a few minutes of drinking it. I think I figured out why it only recently started. I used to eat lots of peppermint candies and I stopped because they were lots of sugar and calories. I will keep drinking tea with peppermint in it and I think that should solve the issue.
  • littlechiaseed
    littlechiaseed Posts: 489 Member
    hereforthelolz wrote: »
    Update: I put a couple drops of peppermint oil on a teabag before brewing the tea, and the pain basically disappeared within a few minutes of drinking it. I think I figured out why it only recently started. I used to eat lots of peppermint candies and I stopped because they were lots of sugar and calories. I will keep drinking tea with peppermint in it and I think that should solve the issue.
    I drink peppermint tea for stomach distension and upset and it works wonders.

  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Great!!!
  • extra_medium
    extra_medium Posts: 1,525 Member
    corgicake wrote: »
    There's a vegan version of beano, can't remember what it's called though. Still baffles me why they would put animal products in something most likely to be wanted by people trying not to eat animals.

    Gas is fairly universal, I don't think beano is any more likely to be used by vegans than not :neutral:
  • LUHAN27
    LUHAN27 Posts: 211 Member
    edited August 2016
    hereforthelolz wrote: »
    Update: I put a couple drops of peppermint oil on a teabag before brewing the tea, and the pain basically disappeared within a few minutes of drinking it. I think I figured out why it only recently started. I used to eat lots of peppermint candies and I stopped because they were lots of sugar and calories. I will keep drinking tea with peppermint in it and I think that should solve the issue.

    Thank you for this post! I need to buy some peppermint tea/oil. :)
  • Budjola
    Budjola Posts: 148 Member
    more fiber more water
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    Oh yeah. I forgot to say in my info about the low fodmap diet that you need to make sure you are getting enough soluble fiber. Soluble fiber is much easier on our GI tract and feeds good bacteria. Insoluble fiber is harder on our GI tracts. So, try to choose fruits and veggies that have a higher soluble to insoluble fiber ratio. And cooking the veggies helps a ton to make them more digestible and bioavailable! Also eating fermented foods if you can tolerate them. Such as good quality kefir and raw sauerkraut. Fermented veggies like sauerkraut are also easier to digest than just raw cabbage.
  • Kdp2015
    Kdp2015 Posts: 519 Member
    Having spent time on c-section ward I can agree peppermint is a miracle cure!
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,348 Member
    I drink peppermint tea all day every day at work because work keeps the bags in the tea room. Weekends I don't drink it because I have other teas at home. Until this thread it NEVER occurred to me that's why I don't get gas pains during the week but do on weekends.
  • BinaryPulsar
    BinaryPulsar Posts: 8,927 Member
    BinaryPulsar wrote: »
    Oh yeah. I forgot to say in my info about the low fodmap diet that you need to make sure you are getting enough soluble fiber. Soluble fiber is much easier on our GI tract and feeds good bacteria. Insoluble fiber is harder on our GI tracts. So, try to choose fruits and veggies that have a higher soluble to insoluble fiber ratio. And cooking the veggies helps a ton to make them more digestible and bioavailable! Also eating fermented foods if you can tolerate them. Such as good quality kefir and raw sauerkraut. Fermented veggies like sauerkraut are also easier to digest than just raw cabbage.

    Oops, I posted this in the wrong thread.
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