The Carbon County news. [volume] (Red Lodge, Mont.) 1924-1931, 1927-08-18
GAS

pelled from the stomach was a nrod-
uct OF food fermentation. While If
happens that the contents of the
stomach are subject to fermentation
with the formation of gas, this is sell
dom II ever of sufficient amount to
explain the belching some people per-
form.
Formerly it was the practice among
most doctors to prescribe DRUG
having powerful permicidal action, be-
hevlng that it stopped fermentation
IN the stomach and thereby relieved
the patient of gas. In MANY such
cases the patients condition improved
after few days and of course the
medicine got the credit. No one
thought that perhaps he recovered in
spite of rather than because of the
drugs he had taken. As a matter of
TACT most of these people would have
gotten well sooner had they taken
nothing.
II one will watch mixture such as
that found in the stomach, in process
OF fermentation, he will quickly note
that the formation of gas is very slow.
Tactic acid may be formed by fer
mentation but generally no gas is
evolved with it. Butyric acid is some K
times formed in the stomach during a h
Preventative process and some little !,
gas is formed with it. Yeast fermen- f
tatlon sometimes causes gas. How O
ever, as already stated, the amount of Il
gas formed in this way is never
enough to account for the amount of +,
belchlng these patients have. el
"Swallowed' Air IL
In most instances the gas that is Is
expelled is nothing but air that had lie
previously been swallowed. This has DC
no offensive odor like that produced Il
by fermentation of food. Even in Ell
severe cases of 'gas on the stomach" co
not the slightest degree of fermenta- sa
ton exists. The acid that is present IN
under these conditions is likewise not III
the product of fermentation but the III
normal gastric juice secreted in ex-
cessive amounts. The neurosis that n
causes one to swallow air is the same u
that induces over-aetivity of the gas
trio glands.
There is not a single symptom that
points exclusively to a specific disease
If the stomach-which makes the di
lgnosis of stomach disorders exceed
ngly difficult. In many cases the Z
disturbance of the stomach is itself sal
merely symptomatic of another dis sin,
ase. A patient recently consulted me ed
ecause his stomach was bothering hal
i'm; what he had was pernicious dep
nemia. or .
The vast majority of diseases of the non
are functional. That is to gen
ay the disturbance is one of deranged LET
elton rather than structural defect. n
nd most of these are result of the Ma
dividuals own bad habits, not CIV, !
largeable to the stomach itself. So 70 :
18th gas. The stomach is blamed for ono,
gas whereas the gas ex- Civ
'iieu Ny 1ie organ Was introduced Mon
ON the outside. w
Remedies OF Little Value Was
People with "gas on the stomach" "T
sort to all kinds of remedies to fees
t rid of the gas the two most favor note.
S being soda and charcoal. Neither of b
anything of value. When Mr..
easpoonful of soda is taken a chem that
i reaction with the acid in the every
mach taken place with the evolu- indie
n of gas. This gas is of course ex- form
led by the faithful stomach and the the t
lent thinks the soda is bringing this i
the gas that was in the stomach. rolet
The "sour stomach" that usually show
ompanies this condition is due to same
over-secretion (nervous) of hydro sales
oric acid Zone Of the constituents that
the gastric juice) and the neutrali- recorC
ion of this acid by the alkaline soda factor
What gives relief from that phase the Ell
The disorded. In cases where there COR
ctually some fermentation with the fees ,
duction of fatty acids the soda warra
Dimes with these forming soap. a new
rcoal is supposed to absorb gas, in pro
does. But it would take a couple bv no
nds, not one or two little tablets, 20 zo1
o the work expected of it. put oil
wallowing air is nothing but bad 43 zor
It. Nervous people have custom planni
ulping, gasping, signing, and so on lion ca
If which draw air into the stom- 9Th,
Boiling ones food does the same nc
g. The best way to break oneself everv
ne haoi. IS 70 nold the mouth ing fir
ly open for two or three minutes villa
zen times day, at the same time 70 Toe
thing regularly through the nose. mediat
should be done when one is a1ono y