GAS IN THE STOMACH IS DANGEROUS

Southland Times, Issue 17533, 9 June 1915, Page 3

GAS IN THE STOMACH IS DANGEROUS

PHYSICIANS UKCOMMKND THIS ('SI OK lUAONKSJA.

Sufferers from indigestion or dyspepsia should remember that the presence of gas or wind In the stomach invariably indicates that the stomach is troubled by excessive acidity. This acid causes the food to ferment and the fermenting food in turn gives rise to noxious gases which distend tine stomach, hamper the normal functions of vital internal organs, cause acute headaches, interlere with the action of the heart, and charge the hlood stream with deadly poisons, which in time must ruin the health. Physicians say that to quickly dispel a dangerous accumulation <:f wind in the stomach and to stop the food fermentation which creates the gas, the acid in the stomach must, he neutralised, ami that for this purpose there i< nothing quite so good as half a teaspoon till of pure bism ated magnesia, taken in a little water immediately after meals. This instantly neutralises the acid, thus stopping fermentation and the formation of gas,

and enables the inflamed, distended stomach to proceed with its work under natural conditions. Kisnrated magnesia is obtainable in powder or tablet form from any chemist; hut as there are many different forms of magnesia it is important that 11.0 hisurated which the physicians prescribe should be distinctly linked for.