Gas is always uncomfortable but occasionally it causes severe pain, enough to make you double over. Why?
In: Biology
If you’re talking about belly pain, then the reason has and bloating cause pain is because the pain fibers in your gut respond to distension (stretch) so when there’s a lot of stuff in there, those neurons fire and make your tummy hurt.
Now you can get air under your skin and it feels like rice crispies when you press on it (the doctor word is called for this sensation subcutaneous crepitus). This is very bad and usually means there’s some serious damage or infection going on and you’re hurting from that.
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