Bloating, of course, occurs in many people, particularly nervous people
The symptom of bloating can, not infrequently, be produced in some people by the mere drinking of a glass of water or by putting any cold fluid into the empty stomach. Somehow a reflex disturbance occurs which dilates the stomach and either draws the air in through the throat or else takes gases directly from the blood stream.
Bloating, of course, occurs in many people, particularly nervous people, without even drinking cold water. Strangely enough, this type of “gas” bloating is frequently found in nervous women suffering from frustrations in matters of love.
Then, too, in many cases of ulcer of the duodenum, pain is not a prominent symptom but a feeling of distention in the upper part of the abdomen is. However, this same symptom can be caused by plain, ordinary constipation.
Tags: bloat, bloating, Constipation, stomach, Ulcer, ulcer of the duodenum