A member asked:

Loud gurgling sounds in abdomen, had a small bowel movement and felt incomplete and still loud gurgling and now i'm panicking that something serious!

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Dr. Milton Alvis, jr answered

Specializes in Preventive Medicine

Not likely. Constant: intestinal muscle waves of contraction, back & forth, called peristalsis, under both brain & local control, is what mixes the ~7 liters/day of water excreted from blood stream into intestines to mix with food into a thin watery soup; the motion both mixing digestive enzymes with/break-down food molecules & constantly changing intestinal wall exposure for selective absorption. Air in water gurgles.

Answered 7/23/2017

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