{"id":4284,"date":"2022-09-26T14:54:46","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T09:24:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.drchiragthakkar.com\/blog\/?p=4284"},"modified":"2025-02-11T21:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T16:16:48","slug":"dgbi-disorder-of-gut-brain-interaction-functional-digestive-problems-ibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drchiragthakkar.com\/blog\/dgbi-disorder-of-gut-brain-interaction-functional-digestive-problems-ibs\/","title":{"rendered":"DGBI (Disorder of Gut-Brain Interaction) \/Functional digestive problems \/IBS"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<h2>How does a patient feel symptoms or suffer from the symptoms when there is no disease?<\/h2>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>Our brain and the whole digestive system are in a constant state of<br \/>communication\u00a0with each other, each and every second of our life. This communication happens by way of nerve signals as well as secretions of various chemicals, phytochemicals, and hormones. Communication is both ways, meaning signals are passed from the brain to the gut and to the brain. Any disturbance or imperfection in these communications can lead to various symptoms that are felt by<br \/>the patient. Sometimes they are very trivial, causing no disturbance in the overall function of your body and not bothering you much. And at times, that can lead to disturbances in the functioning of your body, impacting your health, or causing significant symptoms that starts bothering you.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Let&#8217;s understand this with <strong>a few examples.<\/strong> One way of communication and signaling is <strong>from the Brain to the Gut<\/strong>. Like when we are planning to eat, or when we think of food of our liking, signals from the brain go to our gut causing salivation in our mouth and digestive juice secretion in the intestine for preparation for digestion. Such signals are passed for each of the actions related to eating, digestion, and passing motion. But in certain circumstances, this programming of sending signals gets faulty, sending wrong signals or sending signals at inappropriate times or of inappropriate intensity. The wrong signals sometimes do not allow the wall of your stomach or large intestine to relax adequately (loss of accommodation reflex), giving you a stretchy or bloated feeling or feeling of gassiness. So may a time when you feel too gassy, really there is not too much gas but there is an inability of your stomach to relax adequately. And these altered or inappropriate signals can cause various symptoms like <strong>belching, nausea, gurgling in the tummy, pain in the tummy, palpitation, or breathing difficulty.<\/strong><br \/>\u00a0<br \/>Similarly, the other path of communication is <strong>from the Gut to the Brain.<\/strong> For example whenever our stomach is empty signals go to the brain informing us that we are hungry. When we have eaten enough signal goes to the brain informing us that we are full now. When our rectum (the last part of the large intestine) is full of excreta, signals go to the brain informing us that we need to pass motion. But sometimes, the inner lining of your gut becomes oversensitive leading to some <strong>pain or burning or stretching sensation, feeling of something stuck or soreness in the throat, altered taste, constant or repeated urge to pass motion<\/strong> even if there is no infection or inflammation, ulcer, or too much gas in your tummy. It is quite common after a long-term digestive problem or some major digestive surgery.<\/p>\r\n<div style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"mwb-pgfw-pdf-generate-icon__wrapper-frontend\">\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drchiragthakkar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4284?action=genpdf&amp;id=4284\" class=\"pgfw-single-pdf-download-button\" ><img src=\"https:\/\/www.drchiragthakkar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-generator-for-wp\/admin\/src\/images\/PDF_Tray.svg\" title=\"Generate PDF\" style=\"width:25px; height:45px;\"><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How does a patient feel symptoms or suffer from the symptoms when there is no disease? Our brain and the whole digestive system are in a constant state ofcommunication\u00a0with each other, each and every second of our life. 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