Check with your doctor if you often have belching followed by these 4 symptoms
Most of you may immediately have saltpeter after meals. Although considered impolite, belching is a normal body reaction. By belching, we release gas that enters the stomach when we chew or talk while eating. But be careful if you often belch followed by some additional symptoms. Excessive belching may indicate certain health problems that you should check with your doctor.
Often is belching followed by these symptoms?
If your excessive belching is accompanied by one or more of the symptoms below, you should immediately see a doctor.
1. Vomiting
Occurs alone, vomiting is a body reaction that indicates a problem. Especially if it accompanies excessive belching complaints. Reporting from WomensHealth, according to Bhavesh Shah of Long Beach Medical Center in California, this condition is a symptom of a hiatal hernia or heartburn or GERD.
Often belching accompanied by vomiting can also be a sign of a blockage in the abdominal organs. For example due to the growth of boils in the small intestine.
2. Weight loss
If you realize later that your body weight and appetite are decreasing while belching continuously, this can be a sign of the development of stomach cancer that is eating away at the body. Cancer cells absorb your body's energy to continue to multiply and spread. This is what makes the weight of cancer patients continue to decline.
In addition to cancer, this condition can indicate inflammation, infection, or ulcers in your digestive system.
3. Constipation or diarrhea
If you have lately overused with constipation, vomiting, flatulence, severe abdominal pain, and/or weight loss, this can be a sign of intestinal obstruction that may be caused by tumor growth, scarring, or entwined intestines.
Continuous belching followed by constipation and the above symptoms can also be a symptom of intestinal inflammation, aka IBS. Some people who have IBS can experience diarrhea rather than constipation.
In addition, excessive belching accompanied by diarrhea can be a symptom of Crohn's disease or pancolitis.
4. Stomach ache
Frequent belching with abdominal pain and feeling bloated long enough or seriously can be a symptom of lactose intolerance or gluten allergy. This condition often occurs due to food fermentation in your intestines that produces excess gas.
Excessive belching accompanied by stomach aches and pains, such sensations, until the weight drops dramatically can also be a sign of infection with H. pylori bacteria in the intestine.
If you still continue to belch and may experience other symptoms not mentioned above, consult a doctor immediately to get the right diagnosis and treatment steps. Early detection can also prevent you from dangerous complications that might lurk.
