Top tips for trapped wind?!

[costagirl]

Have been bloated and tender for several days with what feels like wind - at least, if feels like I need to have a good old guff but nothing much happens. Before I take pot luck at Boots, anyone tried anything that REALLY shifts it?

peppermint tea is good for the digestive system....not sure if it helps with farting tho!!

Hot water

Peppermint tea

Warm baths

not sure that trapped wind makes you feel tender???

why dont you see your gp? at least ask the pharmacist at boots rather than just guessing yourself

yoga would help

Thanks, yes will have a chat with pharmacist. Am eating bucket loads of fruit and drinking loads of water but still like barrage balloon. Juat wondered whether Windeze or any of those things havew worked for people - haven;t got time to see Dr, it means waiting around for hours.

peppermint tea, and if you can get the privacy to do it, lying on your back then lifting each leg in turn to put your knee on your chest.

I listened to an interview on R4 few weeks ago and the advice about consipation was to take medication b4 bulking up on food.
Do you have any such medication at home?

I also read somewhere (probably MN) that crouching on all fours and leaning forward aka "looking for something under the sofa" can shift it.

Can you not book a table at a nice restaurant for lunch with some glamorous girlfrinds and discuss it with them?

Many years ago a doctor husband of a friend of mine told her to crouch on all fours, but with her bum sticking up in the air.
Air rises of course & can be released (if you get my drift)
OliviaMumsnet has the idea!

lie on your left hand side for a bit

This yoga move works for me

strong mints plus all fours position as above

Footsteps is right. Or do it with both knees to your chest.

Also, cabbage and lentil curry

Brandy and ginger always works for me without fail. (and for period pains too - top tip!)

lie on belly and even poking yourself in the bell will relive it ]grin]

i won't even begin to correct the grammar and spelling on that post

I wouldn't eat fruit, that's for sure! That will make the wind worse.

I do peppermint tea, or peppermint oil in warm water.

I find keeping moving as much as possible, including things that wiggle your colon around help.

When out and about I mainline polos.

agree with footstep
it works

I lie on the bed on my back and sort of bounce up and down, then lie on my side, then on my front etc and just keep rotating and bouncing (DP helps sometimes - not a euphamism!). It seems to get things moving anyway.

peppermint tea does help too.

My SIL thought she had trapped wind, and was found naked in the kitchen doing star jumps to get rid of it
Turns out it was her gall bladder......

I get terribly bloated, and I take charcoal tablets after eating. They 'absorb digestive gases' apparently, and they really do help me. You get them in capsule form from health food shops.