What are the causes and treatments of bloating

Ever felt like the jeans you wore just last night suddenly refused to fit today?

- Janhavi Patel

Is it possible to have gained some extra pounds around the abdomen overnight? Answer is, yes, it's possible. But it's not gaining weight overnight that caused the jeans not to fit. It's just the air or gas in your body that accumulated in your abdomen. Bloating is nothing but an increase in the abdominal area or a swelling seen around the abdomen when gas accumulates in the gastrointestinal tract (GI). This could be a once-ina-while occurrence or it could be something you experience very frequently. This frequent bloating is usually noticed due to an individual's lifestyle habits like the diet, stress of everyday events, pollutants in the air, etc.