Archive for the ‘Digestion’ Category

Abdominal Pain Is a Pain in the Neck (2009-7-10)

Your abdominal discomfort may be caused not by what’s happening inside your belly but by what’s happening outside. According to one researcher, there’s such a thing as Tight Pants Syndrome, which is abdominal pain lasting two to three hours after a meal. Its cause? Yup: pants that are too tight. (The researcher says there’s as [...]

General GI disorders (2009-6-25)

Problems like irritable bowel syndrome, which causes gut-related symptoms like diarrhea and abdominal pain, are caused by sensitive nerves and result in inflammation in the intestinal walls. For example, we usually all pass the same amount of gas a day (about fourteen times, or 1 liter total), but some of us sense discomfort from [...]