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Why does drinking alcohol cause your stomach to blow up like a pregnant belly, why does the weight only sit in the stomach and not in other places?

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Dr. Robert Killian answered

Specializes in General Practice

Alcoholism: It doesn't in general. You are describing a situation that sounds like too much alcohol too often. Most people do not have any effects as you describe them. I would try at least a thirty day trial of not drinking to see how your GI system works when it is not being stressed by alcohol.

Answered 1/19/2020

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