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Medical and health needs of veterans who have served in the Gulf War regions of Iraq and Afghanistan were explained by advocates who spoke at a briefing in Washington, DC on October 27, 2011. Long-term or repeated exposure to high levels of stress can cause physical changes in the brain and the intestines. Combined with exposure to other environmental factors, such as gastrointestinal infections from food or water, long-term debilitating functional GI disorders may occur. This article recounts the briefing and provides additional information about the service connection to certain functional GI disorders.

Everybody has gas in his or her digestive tract (the esophagus, stomach, small intestine/bowel, and large intestine/bowel).

Pain, a buring or otherwise uncomfortable sensation in the upper abdomen, nausea, or fullness – all of these are symptoms many patients list when they seek medical advice.

Bloating can be described as the feeling that there is an inflated balloon in the abdomen. It is a commonly reported symptom and is sometimes associated with distension, or the visible increase in the width of the area between your hips and chest (abdominal girth). Both bloating and distension cause discomfort, and sometimes pain, and have a negative impact on the quality of life for some individuals.

For those with a functional gastrointestinal/motility disorder, pain is often one of several overlapping unpleasant symptoms.

Acute hepatic porphyria (AHP) is a group of rare genetic conditions that can cause severe gastrointestinal (GI), neurologic, psychiatric, cardiovascular, and skin symptoms.

The main symptom of OIC is a change in your usual bowel habits after you start taking opioid medicines.