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	Bellyaches ... Aerophagia
		Aerophagia is associated with variable combinations of repeated audible swallows, anorexia, abdominal pain, excessive gas, and/or excessive burping.
		Aerophagia may be confused with gastroesophageal reflux disease because noises in the throat are sometimes described by parents or observed by the clinician.
		Aerophagia may also be confused with a motility disorder because of the gaseous abdominal distention.
	www2.kumc.edu /kupedigi/Aerophagia.htm (727 words)

	Dr. Koop - Belching- Health Encyclopedia and Reference
		Aerophagia occurs normally in small amounts while eating and drinking, but some people unconsciously swallow repeated boluses of air at other times, especially when anxious.
		Since aerophagia may be due to excessive salivation, it is important to avoid habits like excessive gum chewing or smoking and to treat digestive diseases (e.g., peptic ulcer) that may cause hypersalivation as well as disorders that may cause nausea and reflex salivation.
		When aerophagia is troublesome, clamping a pencil or other object between the teeth may decrease the amount of involuntary or habit swallowing and break the cycle of aerophagia-discomfort-belch-relief.
	www.drkoop.com /encyclopedia/93/556.html (725 words)

	Gas-Related Complaints: Approach to the Patient with Lower GI Complaints: Merck Manual Professional
		Aerophagia occurs normally in small amounts during eating and drinking, but some people unconsciously swallow air repeatedly while eating or smoking and at other times, especially when anxious.
		Excessive salivation increases aerophagia and may be associated with various GI disorders (gastroesophageal reflux disease), ill-fitting dentures, certain drugs, gum chewing, or nausea of any cause.
		When aerophagia is troublesome, biofeedback and relaxation therapy can retrain the patients to swallow and chew more effectively and break the cycle of aerophagia-discomfort-belch-relief.
	www.merck.com /mmpe/sec02/ch008/ch008d.html (1239 words)

	Bilevel Nasal Positive Airway Pressure and Ballooning of the Stomach - ) CHEST - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gastric insufflation is observed in 30 to 50% of patients receiving noninvasive positive-pressure ventilation, but it is usually not serious.[1] As far as we know, no one has reported on the potential danger of gastric insufflation in patients receiving BNPAP in the supine position, especially after a meal.
		Aerophagia was diagnosed, and the patient was treated with sedatives, which soon appeared to be ineffective.
		After this episode of aerophagia, we made the patient sit up for about half an hour after meals to allow the gastric air to be expelled.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0984/is_6_119/ai_76427049 (882 words)

	Untitled Document
		Excessive aerophagia is a risk factor for flatulence and is noted commonly in brachycephalic, working, and sporting breeds as well as in dogs with aggressive or competitive eating behaviors.
		Excessive belching, rapid eating, and aerophagia have also been identified as risk factors for gastric dilatation-volvulus and should be considered important clinical findings in dogs at risk for this disorder.
		In general, aerophagia and dietary carbohydrate are the primary contributors to the volume of intestinal gas, whereas dietary protein contributes to the odoriferous gases.
	www.hilltopanimalhospital.com /flatulence.htm (2861 words)

	IngentaConnect Aerophagia and anesthesia: an unusual cause of ventilatory insuff... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		IngentaConnect Aerophagia and anesthesia: an unusual cause of ventilatory insuff...
		Aerophagia and anesthesia: an unusual cause of ventilatory insufficiency in a neonate
		The differential diagnosis of aerophagia is reviewed, the anesthetic implications discussed, and relevant literature pertaining to this condition summarized.
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bsc/pa/2005/00000015/00000010/art00014 (157 words)

	IRSA
		Aerophagia (swallowing of air) appears to be much more common than readily apparent and this can exacerbate any of the above problems.
		Some surgical interventions to prevent reflux (such as the Nissen fundal plication, in which the opening from the esophagus to the stomach is closed) may help in GE reflux, preventing heartburn or intermittent regurgitation.
		However, they can also exacerbate or increase the chances of a complication from aerophagia since the patient is now precluded from burping as an escape mechanism from gas.
	www.rettsyndrome.org /content.asp?contentid=801 (1817 words)

	Gut -- eLetters for Rasquin-Weber et al., 45 (90002) 60-68
		A present, abdominal migraine is considered as an episodic disorder with a particular predilection for time of onset (early in the morning) and is associated with autonomic features that are clearly lacking in the most children with recurrent abdominal pain (4).
		Aerophagia is characterized by progressive abdominal distension during the day, non-distended abdomen in the morning and visible air swallowing.
		We agree with Ruppin (9) that aerophagia is not a separate entity but only a complaint met in different disorders such as ingestion of gas-producing foods, gastric hypersecretion or bacterial overgrowth in the small intestine.
	gut.bmjjournals.com /cgi/eletters/45/suppl_2/II60 (525 words)

	Belching or Eructation
		Belching in anxious persons is an extension of "normal" aerophagia and belching.
		Gas-Bloat syndrome may also occur in patients who are learning to use their upper food pipe (esophagus) for their speech after their voice box (larynx) has been surgically removed due to cancer etc. This new form of speech involves sucking air into esophagus, and then expelling it immediately in the form of words.
		Increased aerophagia into the stomach may occur in these patients.
	www.diagnosishealth.com /discussion1/belching.htm (705 words)

	Aerophagia, gastric, and supragastric belching: a study using intraluminal electrical impedance monitoring -- ...
		Aerophagia, gastric, and supragastric belching: a study using intraluminal electrical impedance monitoring -- Bredenoord et al.
		Aerophagia, gastric, and supragastric belching: a study using intraluminal electrical impedance monitoring
		In the Rome II consensus aerophagia is described as a repetitive
	gut.bmjjournals.com /cgi/content/full/53/11/1561 (2402 words)

	IngentaConnect Aerophagia in adults: a comparison with functional dyspepsia
		Aerophagia in adults: a comparison with functional dyspepsia
		: Aerophagia is a functional upper gastrointestinal disorder that has not previously been well described in a large patient group.
		Significantly more patients with aerophagia had anxiety (19%) than those with functional dyspepsia (6%, P < 0.01).
	www.ingentaconnect.com /content/bsc/apt/2005/00000022/00000009/art00014 (271 words)

	Aerophagia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It may cause pain, too, which sometimes is difficult to diagnose.
		Aerophagia can occur without any act of swallowing.
		A Ukrainian study[1] showed that in people with cervical spinal blockages, inhaling also caused air to go down into the esophagus and stomach.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aerophagia (127 words)

	Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Belching Due to Aerophagia in a Normal Adult -- Cigrang et al. 30 (3): 341 -- Behavior ...
		Behavioral Treatment of Chronic Belching Due to Aerophagia in a Normal Adult -- Cigrang et al.
		Aerophagia, or excessive air swallowing, is a potential cause
		belching due to aerophagia in an adult female.
	bmo.sagepub.com /cgi/content/abstract/30/3/341?etoc (195 words)

	Aerophagia definition - Digestion and digestive-related information on MedicineNet.com
		Aerophagia: Swallowing too much air, a common cause of gas in the stomach and belching.
		However, rapid eating or drinking, chewing gum, smoking, or ill-fitting dentures may cause a significant increase in swallowed air.
		The word "phage" in Greek means "to eat." Aerophagia is literally to eat air.
	www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=2161 (183 words)

	Gas?
		Swallowing air, AKA "Aerophagia", is a completely different issue since the gases are totally different and they are not produced as a byproduct of digestion.
		I have aerophagia as a result of CPAP and it slowly is going away.
		I too am having a problem with aerophagia, but I didn't know that it was called that until now.
	www.apneasupport.org /about368.html (849 words)

	Aerophagia & sleep fragmentation
		When I first went on to CPAP 7 months ago, what I now know to be aerophagia was a major issue.
		Sleep fragmentation, however, continues and is clearly related to more than aerophagia.
		The aerophagia is not totally gone but it impacts later in the sleep and less frequently.
	www.sleepnet.com /apnea40/messages/410.html (523 words)

	View topic - AutoPAP Exchange / CPAP gas called "Aerophagia"
		If the cause of aerophagia is purely related to CPAP use, then it happens simply because the air pressure against the esophageal sphincter muscles is great enough to overcome the esophageal closure that normally seals off the stomach.
		CPAP patients who seem to suffer from intolerable aerophagia (or aerophagia that does not eventually go away on its own) usually have to solve this problem by having their physician lower their air pressure and/or change PAP machine type.
		However.......the threshold for aerophagia problems is dependent on the patient not on any preconceived numbers set forth by a medical study.
	www.talkaboutsleep.com /message-boards/viewtopic.php?t=2784 (2486 words)

	Other Canine Behavioral Problems - The Merck Veterinary Manual
		Abnormal ingestive behavior includes pica (consistent ingestion of nonfood material), coprophagia (ingestion of feces that is neither accidental nor incidental), polyphagia, aerophagia, psychogenic water drinking (consumption of water in excess of that necessary to meet daily fluid balance needs or to thermoregulate or lubricate food for ingestion), anorexia, and gorging.
		Except for pica and aerophagia—which truly seem different from ingestion or lack of ingestion involving food—it is very difficult, although not impossible, to rule out all physiologic causal associations.
		It is logical that abnormal ingestion of food and abnormal ingestion of water should be classified separately because they are controlled by different, although related, physiologic systems.
	www.merckvetmanual.com /mvm/htm/bc/140217.htm (2977 words)

	eMedicine - Flatulence : Article by Joseph Maslar, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Flatus passage in excess of these values could be considered abnormal and is largely due to one of 2 factors, increased intake of gas or increased production of gas within the GI tract.
		Because this problem is most often related to diet, and sometimes to those habits that cause aerophagia, you can begin by trying to remove offending agents from your diet.
		In cases where aerophagia results from an anxious state, psychotherapy can be helpful in changing habit patterns and relieving gaseous trouble.
	www.emedicine.com /aaem/topic209.htm (1877 words)

	constant belching...gerd causing aerophagia?
		I went to get a second opinion and the doc noticed that a large amount of air was going through my esophagus when I breathe (not swallowing!), he said that's the only way I could be belching to such an extent.
		But apart from these in some patients being the cause of their belching, I'm rather skeptical about the fact that many people are diagnozed with aerophagia as the cause.
		I did try clenching a pencil between by teeth (the aerophagia test) and is does seem like the burping stops or at least slows down.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/gastro/messages/37268.html (8951 words)

	The Longitudinal Muscle in Esophageal Disease
		relates belching to aerophagia, splenic flexure syndrome, "magenblase syndrome" and neurosis, considering it only in the context of the excessive belching of aerophagia.
		He lists aerophagia as caused by most of the disorders of the upper GI tract.
		A "hiatus hernia" was present that was ideally provoked by having the patient belch, a feat at which he was unusually proficient and could perform on command.
	www.mailbag.com /users/oesophagus/webdoc10.htm (4389 words)

	Stomach Full of Air Only when You Sleep On Your Side?
		Anyway, I have discovered that the terrible aerophagia I used to experience is entirely related to sleeping on my side.
		Which is sort of ironic as I used to always sleep on my back, until I discovered side sleeping was supposed to help apnea, and started doing that to "treat" my apnea before I got CPAP.
		What I don't understand is why some nights the aerophagia is really bad and other night's it's mild.
	www.apneasupport.org /about6440.html (590 words)

	Bioline International Official Site (site up-dated regularly)
		In older children, large amounts of air can be swallowed while drinking through a straw or chewing gum.
		In reported paediatric patients, diagnosis of aerophagia was missed initially,
		Transverse colon volvulus in a child with pathologic aerophagia.
	www.bioline.org.br /request?sr04022 (614 words)

	Flatulence (Gas)
		Excess gas in the digestive tract (which is your esophagus, stomach, small intestine, and colon/large intestine) can come from 2 sources: increased intake of gas, for example, from air you swallow; or increased production of gas as certain undigested foods are broken down by harmless bacteria normally found in your colon.
		Analysis of the gas can help determine if it originated from aerophagia (mostly nitrogen, also oxygen and carbon dioxide) or GI production (mainly carbon monoxide, hydrogen, and methane).
		Breakdown of undigested foods: Your body does not digest and absorb some carbohydrates (for example, the sugar, starches, and fiber found in many foods) in the small intestine because of a shortage or absence of certain enzymes there.
	www.emedicinehealth.com /flatulence_gas/page2_em.htm (812 words)

	Gas bloat syndrome - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The offending gas may come from dietary sources (especially carbonated beverages).
		Another suspected cause is subconscious swallowing of air aerophagia.
		If gas bloat syndrome occurs post operatively and does not resolve with time, dietary restrictions, or counselling regarding aerophagia, it may be beneficial to consider treating the condition with an endoscopic balloon dilitation.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gas_bloat_syndrome (168 words)

	Aerophagia, backpain and chronic nausea
		The aerophagia seemed to start suddenly overnight and was quite strange for me as I never had it before.
		I went to see my local doctor and he described the air coming up as aerophagia and possibly I was just swallowing air.
		I am quite a nervous and stressed person and he put most of it down to my psychology I think.
	www.medhelp.org /forums/gastro/messages/36660.html (1474 words)

	Flatulence: Bowel Movement Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition
		Air is a gas, which can be swallowed with food.
		Swallowing small amounts of air is normal, but some people unconsciously swallow large amounts (aerophagia), especially when they feel anxious.
		Most swallowed air is later belched up, so only some air passes from the stomach into the rest of the digestive system.
	www.merck.com /mmhe/sec09/ch129/ch129f.html (664 words)

	OHSU Health - Gas in the Digestive Tract (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Gas in the digestive tract comes from two sources:
		aerophagia (air swallowing) - usually caused by eating or drinking rapidly, as well as by chewing gum, smoking, or wearing loose dentures.
		Belching is the way most swallowed air leaves the stomach.
	www.ohsuhealth.com /htaz/digest/digesdis/gas_in_the_digestive_tract.cfm (1184 words)

	aerophagia Chin Strap Chin restraint mouth breathing Chin straps CPAP Australia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		These can include: a dry mouth or the feeling of air bubbling through your lips as you go to sleep.
		Chin straps can also sometimes help prevent air swallowing (aerophagia) and the discomfort it causes.
		Consequently, we caution all our readers that the information and advice contained in this website (or in any publication) should be acted or relied upon only after consultation with your physician or sleep clinic.
	www.cpapaustralia.com.au /shopping/chin-straps.htm (451 words)

	Abdominal Pain, Age 12 and Older -- Prevention
		Eat slowly and stop when you feel full.
		To prevent abdominal pain caused by swallowing air (aerophagia), avoid chewing gum and carbonated beverages.
		Avoid abdominal injuries by wearing your seat belt safely and correctly every time you drive or are a passenger in a car.
	www.webmd.com /hw/parenting_news/aa104702.asp (157 words)

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