**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.
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How is Abdominal bloating treated?
You can often ease abdominal bloating by eating smaller meals, eating slowly, and cutting back on carbonated drinks and foods that trigger symptoms. If you are constipated, drink water, stay active, and ask a pharmacist about soluble fiber or a laxative. Simethicone may relieve gas symptoms but does not treat every cause. See a clinician if bloating persists, keeps returning, or comes with weight loss or blood in your stool. Seek urgent care for vomiting or inability to pass stool or gas, and emergency care for sudden, severe belly pain.