What is the reason for the constant rumbling of stomach?

In daily life, many people are prone to experiencing rumbling sounds in their stomachs. Generally, rumbling sounds in the stomach may be caused by hunger, which requires proper energy replenishment. It may also be a symptom caused by bowel sounds, which is an intestinal disease. If you have bowel sounds, your stomach will easily make noises and you need to treat it in time.

What is the reason for the constant rumbling sound in the stomach?

This rumbling sound of the stomach is called "bowel sounds" in the medical field. Under normal circumstances, we can only hear it clearly by using a stethoscope in the lower abdomen (usually the right lower abdomen is used as the auscultation point), about 4 to 5 times per minute. In fact, in daily life, we cannot hear it with ears alone.

When we are particularly hungry, our stomach may make a "gurgling" signal to remind you to eat something quickly; there is another situation, that is, if you eat something that is difficult to digest, the microorganisms in the intestines decompose and produce gas, which will also produce a gurgling sound.

Of course, this is all normal and nothing to worry about. In most cases, you don’t need to worry about the “cooing” sound.

"Coo" that needs attention

In fact, long-term hyperactive, active, weakened or disappeared bowel sounds are not normal phenomena, which indicates that there is a problem with our body.

For example, if the bowel sounds can reach more than ten times per minute, but the pitch is not too high, this is most likely a manifestation of acute gastroenteritis or massive gastrointestinal bleeding or after taking laxatives; if the bowel sounds are multiple times per minute and the pitch is high-pitched, or even metallic, this may be mechanical intestinal obstruction.

Of course, relying solely on bowel sounds to diagnose disease is not enough. It can only be regarded as an important clue. Moreover, most diseases with bowel sound symptoms have common gastrointestinal symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, and abnormal stool.

Therefore, the true diagnosis of the disease still requires a combination of medical history, physical examination, physical symptoms, laboratory and other examinations.

When your stomach growls, do you need to go to the hospital?

In fact, there are many reasons why your stomach growls, including severe gastrointestinal bleeding, intestinal obstruction, etc. (of course, the main symptoms of these diseases are not problems with bowel sounds); milder ones may be due to taking medicine, constipation, hunger, etc.

So when do you need to go to the hospital? If it's just your stomach growling, then again, in most cases there should be no problem; but if your stomach is always growling and it affects your life or is accompanied by other symptoms such as abdominal pain, constipation, indigestion, etc., even if these symptoms are within your tolerance range and are not too serious, you should go to the hospital for a good check-up.