To prevent meteorism (flatulence), attention must be paid to reducing individual risk factors.
Behavioral risk factors
- Diet
- Wrong eating and drinking habits such as hasty eating and drinking carbonated beverages.
- Consumption of vegetables and legumes (due tocontained sugar molecules rhamnose and stachyose,which can not be utilized in the small intestine and only in the colon by the bacterial flora are displaced),which have a flatulent effect. Rhamnose and stachyose are also found in higher concentrations in other foods: Chicken eggs, cabbage, crispbread, sauerkraut, celery, watermelon and onions.
- Jerusalem artichoke, which contains inulin, can also increase gas production.
- Micronutrient deficiency (vital substances) – see prevention with micronutrients.
- Aerophagy – increased swallowing of air.
Other risk factors
- At the beginning of a high-fiber diet (but stops after two to three weeks).
