Causes of Belching and Bloating

Belching is the expulsion of gas from the gut through the mouth (eructations). Bloating may occur due to gas trapped within the gastrointestinal tract and this is often relieved upon belching.

Belching and bloating may be due to food, eating habits, or disorders in the stomach, small intestine or gallbladder. Bloating and gas may not always be expelled or relieved by a belch and other factors and conditions should be considered in cases of excessive bloating and gas.

Sky-rocketing global food prices are disturbing the developed countries of the world but in the developing countries like India, Bangladesh and Pakistan things are getting bad to worse with every passing day.

According to a report of UNICEF, almost 1.5 million Indian children may become malnourished because of rising food prices worldwide. UNICEF also reports that high prices of food can become dangerous for vulnerable women and kids all around the South Asia.

The largest number of malnourished children, in the world, is already found in this region and there may be an alarming increase in their number in the coming days.UNICEF says that even before the present food crisis, signs of stunted growth were observed in almost half of all Indian children.

On Tuesday, Daniel Toole, UNICEF’s regional director for South Asia, told in the Indian capital, Delhi that it was a perfect storm; number of malnutrition was increasing in a region where they were already in majority.

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An intestinal virus known as “Enterovirus 71” has caused 26 children deaths in china and most of them took place in the province of Anhui where almost 600 new cases were found on this Sunday.Children are rapidly getting infected with the disease and still one can’t see the end of that trouble that is on rise with every passing day.During the weekend china issued a countrywide alert to control the disease as it also spreading in many other parts of china.

Local authorities and healthcare officials have been countrywide instructed to report all new cases during next 24 hours.And it is expected that all new and previous cases will be reported before the allotted time.

The local authorities are being alleged that they tried to cover that reports, the local authorities are also becoming the victim of severe criticism in china as they reported these deaths without any serious intentions and didn’t show any concern to these serious deaths.

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Recent research advancements and studies suggest that children are more susceptive to the higher respiratory tract expression of avian influenza receptors in comparison to the adults. This clearly means that the children particularly are vulnerable to infection.

Dr.John Nicholls from the University of Hong Kong and his specialized research team used modified immune-histo-chemical techniques to demonstrate more widespread expression of avian influenza receptors throughout the respiratory tract in general. Such specific study was never conducted in past.

Dr. John Nicholls found greater receptor expression in the respiratory epithelium of children than of adults. His team preferred adopting new technologically advanced methods for further investigations and obtained refined and improved results implying that previous findings on the tissue distribution of influenza receptors should now be re-evaluated.

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