Complaints are worse after eating and worse from warm drinks, especially from warm milk. After eating, cough and gagging. There is a peculiar combination of symptoms about the throat. Dryness and accumulation of mucus in the throat which he tries to expel, and, when making an effort to cough out the mucus he gags and sometimes vomits. Distension of the abdomen with great flatulence, especially after eating.
Some symptoms are worse after drinking.
Sometimes these complaints come on in the middle of the night, rousing him up with rumbling and cutting in the bowels. At other times the coldness seems to be on one side of the abdomen. Inveterate constipation in old persons, and especially when it is impossible to have anyone near at the time, of stool. After the normal stool there is pressure in the abdomen or a sense of emptiness and weakness in the abdomen which is better after passing flatus or eructation. Bloody urine with red sediment in the urine.