Eating healthy but cant get rid of my bloating

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  • alexandravictoria88
    alexandravictoria88 Posts: 138 Member
    lucerorojo wrote: »
    Do the locals drink the tap water? I would try drinking bottled water few weeks and see if this cures the problem. You want to eliminate that possibilty right away. Be careful with washing your produce-- make sure you do that in bottled water. In 3 months you should have acclimated to the water if it is ok. However I'm in the USA and you couldn't pay me to drink unfiltered tap water in my city. (And I'm not in Detroit either) some water is not clean enough to drink or bathe in.

    well its not exactly sewer water lol but i yes i get where you are coming from. I dont drink the tap water to be honest as it tastes so chemically so ive always had filtered or bottled water.
  • trinique44
    trinique44 Posts: 11 Member
    You're probably lactose intolerant. Are you having dairy? This is how I found out I was lactose. I was bloated all the time. So I cut out most dairy and now use Almond Milk. Bloat is mostly gone except last night I wanted some Greek Yogurt with my blueberries so bad that I just had to have it lol. Today I'm bloated :p
  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    alexandravictoria88 wrote: »
    lucerorojo wrote: »
    Do the locals drink the tap water? I would try drinking bottled water few weeks and see if this cures the problem. You want to eliminate that possibilty right away. Be careful with washing your produce-- make sure you do that in bottled water. In 3 months you should have acclimated to the water if it is ok. However I'm in the USA and you couldn't pay me to drink unfiltered tap water in my city. (And I'm not in Detroit either) some water is not clean enough to drink or bathe in.

    well its not exactly sewer water lol but i yes i get where you are coming from. I dont drink the tap water to be honest as it tastes so chemically so ive always had filtered or bottled water.

    So you can rule out the water...
  • alexandravictoria88
    alexandravictoria88 Posts: 138 Member
    trinique44 wrote: »
    You're probably lactose intolerant. Are you having dairy? This is how I found out I was lactose. I was bloated all the time. So I cut out most dairy and now use Almond Milk. Bloat is mostly gone except last night I wanted some Greek Yogurt with my blueberries so bad that I just had to have it lol. Today I'm bloated :p

    You know what i think i am! Ive been drinking coconut milk and feel a lot flatter than i was. I had a piece of cheese yesterday and my belly ballooned lol.
  • TrishSeren
    TrishSeren Posts: 587 Member
    Omgosh I had horrible bloating and gas for months and couldn’t work out what it was. Turns out it was the probiotics I was taking!
  • alexandravictoria88
    alexandravictoria88 Posts: 138 Member
    TrishSeren wrote: »
    Omgosh I had horrible bloating and gas for months and couldn’t work out what it was. Turns out it was the probiotics I was taking!

    Really??? I found probiotics have helped me massively with gas lol
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,261 Member
    lucerorojo wrote: »
    Do the locals drink the tap water? I would try drinking bottled water few weeks and see if this cures the problem. You want to eliminate that possibilty right away. Be careful with washing your produce-- make sure you do that in bottled water. In 3 months you should have acclimated to the water if it is ok. However I'm in the USA and you couldn't pay me to drink unfiltered tap water in my city. (And I'm not in Detroit either) some water is not clean enough to drink or bathe in.

    Oh. Good. Lord.

    Detroit's tap water is fine. I've drunk it, and would drink it freely now. Detroit has 99 (+) problems, and the water ain't one.

    Those unfortunate people in Flint were also fine when they were on Detroit municipal water, until they converted to undertreated Flint river water. "Undertreated" is the key word.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,261 Member
    alexandravictoria88 wrote: »
    TrishSeren wrote: »
    Omgosh I had horrible bloating and gas for months and couldn’t work out what it was. Turns out it was the probiotics I was taking!

    Really??? I found probiotics have helped me massively with gas lol
    alexandravictoria88 wrote: »
    TrishSeren wrote: »
    Omgosh I had horrible bloating and gas for months and couldn’t work out what it was. Turns out it was the probiotics I was taking!

    Really??? I found probiotics have helped me massively with gas lol

    "Probiotics" are not just one thing. They can be a lot of different things. And any of those things can affect different people differently. Furthermore, ramping up probiotics (beneficial gut bugs) and prebiotics (the things beneficial gut bugs like to eat) can cause gassiness, i.e., bloating, at first. Increase gradually, allow time to adapt. If you're still gassy/bloated after a couple of weeks, back off or try a different formulation.

    Consider probiotic time-tested traditional foods (yogurt, kefir, raw sauerkraut or kimchi, kombucha, miso etc.) if supplements give you trouble.
  • lucerorojo
    lucerorojo Posts: 790 Member
    edited February 2018
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    lucerorojo wrote: »
    Do the locals drink the tap water? I would try drinking bottled water few weeks and see if this cures the problem. You want to eliminate that possibilty right away. Be careful with washing your produce-- make sure you do that in bottled water. In 3 months you should have acclimated to the water if it is ok. However I'm in the USA and you couldn't pay me to drink unfiltered tap water in my city. (And I'm not in Detroit either) some water is not clean enough to drink or bathe in.

    Oh. Good. Lord.

    Detroit's tap water is fine. I've drunk it, and would drink it freely now. Detroit has 99 (+) problems, and the water ain't one.

    Those unfortunate people in Flint were also fine when they were on Detroit municipal water, until they converted to undertreated Flint river water. "Undertreated" is the key word.

    I meant Flint, actually. I should have just put MI. The tap water in my city is not potable so my point was not to put down Detroit or MI but to clarify that the water is a problem elsewhere in the USA.
  • TrishSeren
    TrishSeren Posts: 587 Member
    alexandravictoria88 wrote: »
    TrishSeren wrote: »
    Omgosh I had horrible bloating and gas for months and couldn’t work out what it was. Turns out it was the probiotics I was taking!

    Really??? I found probiotics have helped me massively with gas lol

    I know, guess I just didn't react well to them.
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