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...excessive or inadequate motility in the bowel. Lessened muscular activity is more likely to occur in elderly patients, whose food passes normally as far as the end of the small bowel, but then slows down in the flabby large bowel. The remedy in most of these cases, said Dr. Danhof, is bethanechol chloride, sold as Myocholine and Urecholine, to improve the bowel's muscle tone. In the overactive bowel, commonly associated with nervous conditions, frothing or foaming may occur. A useful remedy: dimethylpolysiloxane with pepsin (trade name: Phazyme), which both improves digestion and combats gas formation. Some patients need...
...considerable amount of gas passes through a normal, healthy digestive system. Dr. Ivan E. Danhof, of the Uni versity of Texas' Southwestern Medical School in Dallas, told the American Medical Association last week that the average amount ranges from a quart to a quart and a half a day. Some of the gas is plain air, of which a little is swallowed unconsciously, especially at meal times and in emptying the mouth of saliva. Another gas usually ingested in harmless quantities is carbon dioxide, from the bubbles in soft drinks and the soda in Scotch and soda...
Reassurance & Tranquilizers. Among a sampling of 88 patients who complained of painful gas, Dr. Danhof found that 25% had simply swallowed too much air. Some of these patients, suffering from anxiety, could not expel all the air by belching, and retained so much that it caused painful distention in the gastrointestinal tract. In these cases, said Dr. Danhof, the most effective treatment is reassurance, which may be reinforced with tranquilizers and accompanied by instructions to exhale completely before swallowing food or drink...
...separate category, Dr. Danhof put patients who suffer from flatulent diarrhea because of a deficiency in enzymes that digest ordinary table sugar. The remedy is twofold: enzyme supplements and restriction of sugar in food and drink. Finally, some people have a so-called intestinal allergy to some specific foods, such as chocolate or strawberries, or even milk. In such cases, the remedy is the simplest of all-don't eat or drink them...
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