Common Causes
As gas is the usual trigger, eating foods that a person is intolerant to can make symptoms more severe.
- Excessive gas in the transverse colon caused by:
- Lactose intolerance
- abnormal gall bladder function and/or blood flow
- Gall stones
- Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction
- Hiatal hernia
- Cardiac bridge (Coronary occluding reflexes triggered by coronary reflexes)
- Enteric disease
- Aneructonia, the loss of the ability to belch (continuous or intermittent)
- Bowel obstruction (Less common, this usually leads to intense pain in short time)
- Acute pancreatic necrosis
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