Hyperactive bowel sounds

Abnormally frequent, loud, and often high-pitched intestinal sounds produced by increased gastrointestinal motility and the movement of gas and fluid within the bowel lumen.

Causes

• Physiological causes

  • Digestion of high-fiber foods

  • Hunger

  • Normal postprandial intestinal activity

• Dietary and malabsorptive causes

  • Lactose intolerance

  • Other food intolerances or carbohydrate malabsorption

  • Consumption of gas-producing foods

• Infection and inflammation

  • Gastroenteritis

  • Infectious diarrhea

  • Irritable bowel syndrome

  • Crohn's disease

  • Ulcerative colitis

• Mechanical intestinal obstruction

• Laxative use