Don't Let Artificial Sweeteners Destroy Your Own Digestive System
Walaa Fikry Elbossaty*
Department of Chemistry, Damietta University, Egypt
Submission: August 22, 2017; Published: August 30, 2017
*Corresponding author: Walaa Fikry Elbossaty, Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry Division, Email: walaafikryl985@gmail.com
How to cite this article: Walaa Fikry E. Walaa Fikry Elbossaty. Adv Res Gastroentero Hepatol 2017; 7(1): 555702. DOI: DOI: 10.19080/ARGH.2017.07.555702
Abstract
Splenic Flexure Syndrome can cause irregular bowel complications. This syndrome can bemanaged by diet. Those people who suffer from this condition must be avoiding food rich with carbohydrates, especially artificial sweeteners.
Introduction
Splenic flexure is a chronic gastric disorder which consider as a subtype of IBS. It is used to describe swelling, muscle contractions of the colon, and upper abdominal anxiety as a result of trapped gas in the colon [1].
Sign and Symptoms
At first, mistake in diagnosis of splenic flexure may be occurring but the experience can begin to grow in intensity. Symptoms of this disease included Pain in upper-left side of abdomen, fever, abdominal cramps, bloating, and colon spasms, constipation or diARGHhea. Medical history, physical examination, X-ray can be help in perfect diagnosis of the disease [2].
Causes of Splenic Flexure
Long chain carbohydrates are not break down or absorbed in the small intestine because of a deficiency of digestion enzymes. The undigested food passes into the large intestine, where harmless and normal bacteria break down the food. This process produces hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and, in about one-third of all people, methane gases, which are released through the rectum. Various bacteria as E. coli and Salmonella can support in the progress of Splenic Flexure Syndrome. Consumption of food fast can cause swallowing air which move through the digestive tract. All of these condition will can be caused splenic flexure [3].
Treatment
In attendance is no direct treatment of the syndrome. The target from treatment course for splenic flexure syndrome is to overcome the symptoms. Treatment strategy include avoid foods that are gas-forming as diet rich with fat , carbohydrate, sodium and replace it with diet rich with fiber. Artificial sweeteners are synthetic sugar substitutes, low-calorie or calorie-free chemical substances that are used instead of sugar to sweeten foods and drinks. They are found in thousands of products, from drinks, desserts and ready meals, to cakes, chewing gum and toothpaste [4]. Artificial sweeteners may be caused weight gain, cancer, bloating, Alzheimer, increase consumption of artificial sweetener may be caused Splenic flexure [5].
Conclusion
Consumption of artificial sweeteners one of reason of splenic flexure syndrome due to accumulation of gases, so person has problems in gastrointestinal tract must be avoid artificial sweeteners.
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