How is Abdominal bloating treated?
Last updated September 7, 2026.
**You can often relieve abdominal bloating by adjusting how you eat, reducing food triggers, and treating constipation when present.** Your treatment depends on whether gas, constipation, a food intolerance, or another condition is causing symptoms. Eat slowly, try smaller meals, and reduce carbonated drinks and chewing gum. Regular activity and enough water can help, especially if you are constipated. A pharmacist can advise you about simethicone for gas or a suitable constipation medicine. See a clinician if your bloating persists or keeps returning.
What to do
- **Adjust your meals:** Eat smaller portions slowly and chew with your mouth closed to reduce swallowed air.
- **Track food triggers:** Record what you eat and when bloating occurs to identify foods that repeatedly cause symptoms.
- **Address constipation:** If you are constipated, try water, regular activity, and soluble fiber such as oats.
- **Ask about medicines:** Ask a pharmacist whether simethicone or a constipation treatment fits your symptoms.
- **Arrange an evaluation:** See a clinician for persistent or recurring bloating, unexplained weight loss, or blood in your stool.
- **Recognize urgent symptoms:** Get urgent care if you cannot pass stool or gas, and emergency care for sudden, severe belly pain.
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