Belching Of Rotten Eggs

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Belching of rotten eggs

Description of the disease

Belching with rotten eggs is the release of gases with a characteristic smell of hydrogen sulfide from the digestive tract into the oral cavity. This belching is considered abnormal and indicates a problem with the digestive system.

Putrefactive processes in the gastrointestinal tract, as evidenced by the belching of rotten eggs, arise against the background of impaired motor activity of the digestive tract and a reduced secretory function.

The "lazy" stomach is in no hurry to digest what has been eaten, which, in turn, causes rotting of sulfur-containing proteins present in food, and the release of hydrogen sulfide by them in large quantities.

The putrefactive process in the stomach is similar to the process of protein breakdown, with the release of a foul-smelling gas, in a spoiled chicken egg.

Content:

• Causes of belching with rotten eggs
• Diarrhea (loose stools) when belching rotten eggs
• What to do when burping rotten eggs?

Causes of belching with rotten eggs

The reasons for belching with rotten eggs can be very diverse, and the consequence of what exactly is such an unpleasant symptom can only be established by a gastroenterologist after a thorough examination.

Belching with hydrogen sulfide occurs under the following conditions:

• decreased gastric secretory function caused by atrophic gastritis;
• decreased enzymatic activity that occurs in chronic pancreatitis;
• chronic gastritis;
• dyskinesia of the biliary tract;
• calculous cholecystitis;
• Crohn's disease;
• inflammatory processes in the duodenum and small intestine;
• pyloric stenosis;
• intestinal bacteria;
• intestinal infection;
• intolerance to certain foods.

Certain culinary addictions: love of spicy, fatty, fried foods, overeating, etc. provoke the development of gastritis. If an acute process smoothly turns into a chronic one, then a number of irreversible processes follow.

This is atrophy of the gastric mucosa with (hypoacid gastritis), decreased acidity of gastric juice and, as a rule, a decrease in the motor function of the walls of the diseased organ. As a result, there is a malfunction in the gastrointestinal tract, and as one of the many signs, belching of rotten eggs.

Normal pH in the stomach promotes good digestion and inhibits the development of putrefactive processes. However, with a low secretory function of the stomach, everything happens exactly the opposite.

Digestion is also impaired in liver diseases: biliary dyskinesia, cholecystitis, when bile is produced in insufficient quantities, and its release from the gallbladder is difficult. In this case, the amount of bile secreted becomes insufficient to digest fats. The secretory function of the intestines and peristalsis is impaired.

Good digestion requires enzymes, which are produced by the pancreas, stomach and small intestines. In chronic pancreatitis, gastritis, chronic enteritis (inflammation of the intestines), the enzymatic activity of the organs decreases sharply, which entails indigestion and the occurrence of putrefactive processes in the gastrointestinal tract.

If, in addition to belching with rotten eggs, other symptoms are present: diarrhea mixed with blood, excessive fatigue, high fever, nausea, bloating, then an examination for Crohn's disease is necessary.

Food intolerances can cause you to burp rotten eggs. For example, with hypolactasia (lactose intolerance), the use of dairy products causes unpleasant conditions: abdominal pain, diarrhea, belching of hydrogen sulfide. These phenomena occur due to the lack of an enzyme in the human body - lactase, which is necessary for the normal digestion of milk.

Fructose intolerance gives a person similar suffering. With this hereditary disease, all products containing fructose are excluded: fruits, vegetables, sweet juices, legumes.

Putrid belching can occur with celiac disease, a disease characterized by intolerance to gluten, the main protein in cereals. In people with such a rare genetic disease, the body refuses to digest flour products, cereals, bread.

Belching with hydrogen sulfide can be caused by pyloric stenosis, when food literally stagnates in the stomach. Multiple scarring of duodenal ulcers makes the pyloric stomach difficult for food. Therefore, part of it remains in the gastric cavity for a long time, which causes fermentative and putrefactive processes there.

Diarrhea (loose stools) when belching rotten eggs

Digestion processes are links in one large chain. Failure of one of the links immediately causes a chain reaction.

The final stage of digestion takes place in the small intestine. This is the meeting place for absolutely all enzymes produced by the digestive organs (stomach, pancreas, small intestine). It is here that food is broken down into individual components and the main absorption of all nutrients, as well as poisons and toxins, occurs.

Due to the disorder in the process of digestion of food and the absorption of nutrients, the intestinal microflora suffers. There is an imbalance between "bad" and "good" bacteria. Excessive bacterial growth in the intestines leads to flatulence, diarrhea and belching of rotten eggs.

Hydrogen sulfide belching is often the so-called "prelude" to diarrhea, which occurs due to a violation of the diet or eating stale food.

But it can also accompany serious intestinal infectious diseases caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori, lamblia, salmonella, shigella, cholera vibrio, staphylococci, clostridia. These diseases are characterized by bacterial diarrhea, and in some cases, vomiting and high fever.

What to do when burping rotten eggs?

Ways to solve the problem:

• medical examination;
• treatment;
• diet.

Necessarily, you need to understand that belching with rotten eggs is a "bell" about the trouble in the body. That it can be one of the symptoms of an incipient, serious illness.

Therefore, urgently, you need to undergo a medical examination and identify the main cause of this problem.

Limit foods that cause rotting and fermentation in the digestive tract. These include:

• whole milk;
• all types of legumes;
• cream;
• fat sour cream;
• cabbage;
• zucchini;
• onion;
• tomatoes;
• plum;
• cherry;
• nuts;
• citrus;
• apples;
• pears.

And foods rich in sulfur:

• canned fish;
• red fish meat;
• rabbit, pork, beef, turkey, chicken meat;
• liver;
• meat of pike, sea bass, sardines, flounder, catfish;
• chicken eggs.

Each person, through trial and error, can work out for himself an individual diet and choose a suitable diet in which the discomfort will be significantly reduced.

Correct treatment of any disease is possible only with qualified diagnosis. Medical examination for belching rotten eggs includes: ultrasound, gastrofibroscopy, blood and feces tests.

Depending on the diagnosis, the treatment can be very diverse. With infectious processes in the intestine, antibiotic therapy is prescribed. With poor digestion and slow gastric emptying, enzyme preparations, adsorbents and drugs that increase intestinal peristalsis are prescribed. If the disease is caused by parasites, antiparasitic drugs are used for treatment.

The author of the article: Gorshenina Elena Ivanovna | Gastroenterologist

Education: Diploma in the specialty "General Medicine" received at the Russian State Medical University named after N. I. Pirogova (2005). Postgraduate studies in the specialty "Gastroenterology" - educational and scientific medical center.