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Aerophagia (var. aerophagy) is a condition that occurs when a person swallows too much air, which goes to the stomach
Stomach

In most mammals, the stomach is a hollow muscular organ of the gastrointestinal tract involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication....
. It causes abdominal bloating
Bloating

Bloating is any abnormal general swelling, or increase in diameter of the abdomen area. As a symptom, the patient feels a full and tight abdomen, which may cause abdominal pain sometimes accompanied by borborygmus....
 and frequent belching and may cause pain
Pain

Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm....
.

phagia is associated with chewing gum
Chewing gum

Chewing gum is a type of confection traditionally made of chicle, a natural latex product, or synthetic rubber. For reasons of economy and quality, many modern chewing gums use rubber instead of chicle....
, smoking
Smoking

Smoking is a practice where a substance, most commonly tobacco, is burned and the smoke tasted or inhaled. This is primarily done as a form of recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs....
, drinking carbonated drinks, eating too fast, and wearing loose dentures
Dentures

Dentures are Prosthesis devices constructed to replace missing teeth, and which are supported by surrounding soft and hard tissues of the oral cavity....
. In people with cervical spinal blockages, inhaling can cause air to enter the esophagus and stomach.

Aerophagia is diagnosed in 8.8% of cognitively delayed patients where the coordination between swallowing and respiration is not well defined.






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Aerophagia (var. aerophagy) is a condition that occurs when a person swallows too much air, which goes to the stomach
Stomach

In most mammals, the stomach is a hollow muscular organ of the gastrointestinal tract involved in the second phase of digestion, following mastication....
. It causes abdominal bloating
Bloating

Bloating is any abnormal general swelling, or increase in diameter of the abdomen area. As a symptom, the patient feels a full and tight abdomen, which may cause abdominal pain sometimes accompanied by borborygmus....
 and frequent belching and may cause pain
Pain

Pain, in the sense of physical pain, is a typical sensory experience that may be described as the unpleasant awareness of a noxious stimulus or bodily harm....
.

Causes

Aerophagia is associated with chewing gum
Chewing gum

Chewing gum is a type of confection traditionally made of chicle, a natural latex product, or synthetic rubber. For reasons of economy and quality, many modern chewing gums use rubber instead of chicle....
, smoking
Smoking

Smoking is a practice where a substance, most commonly tobacco, is burned and the smoke tasted or inhaled. This is primarily done as a form of recreational drug use, as combustion releases the active substances in drugs such as nicotine and makes them available for absorption through the lungs....
, drinking carbonated drinks, eating too fast, and wearing loose dentures
Dentures

Dentures are Prosthesis devices constructed to replace missing teeth, and which are supported by surrounding soft and hard tissues of the oral cavity....
. In people with cervical spinal blockages, inhaling can cause air to enter the esophagus and stomach.

Aerophagia is diagnosed in 8.8% of cognitively delayed patients where the coordination between swallowing and respiration is not well defined. In one case, aerophagia was successfully treated with thorazine, an antipsychotic sometimes used to treat hiccups.

Aerophagia is a dangerous side effect of noninvasive ventilation (NIV), commonly used in treatments of respiratory problems and cardiovascular critical care or in surgery when a general anaesthetic is required. In the case of aerophagia during NIV, it is normally diagnosed by experienced medical specialists who check on patients intermittently during NIV use. The diagnosis is based on the sound heard by listening through a stethoscope
Stethoscope

The stethoscope is a acoustic medicine device for auscultation, or listening to eth internal sounds of an animal body. It is stom often used to listen to heart sounds....
 placed outside the abdominal cavity. Using this approach, the problem is sometimes detected later than when it develops, possibly also later than necessary. Belated detection of aerophagia may lead to gastric distension, which in turn could inflate the diaphragm
Diaphragm

Diaphragm may refer to any of the following:Anatomy* Thoracic diaphragm, a tissue of muscle separating the thorax and abdomen of mammals...
 or cause aspiration of the stomach contents into the lungs or pneumatic rupture of the oesophagus due to extreme gastric insufflation.

Aerophagia may also refer to an unusual condition where the primary symptom is excessive flatus, belching is not present, and the actual mechanism by which air enters the gut obscure.