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Suggest Treatment For Stomach Pain,gas Formation And Headache

My husband has been having ongoing symptoms for approximately 9 months now. He experiences gas pains & (bad) gas throughout the day & night (including while sleeping). He has headaches several times a week, & they seem to be worse when his gas is worse. He also complains of extreme fatigue almost non-stop. He has a job where he has to lift heavy items constantly, & he passed his work physical last year & this year. He is a 35 y/o, W/M, who has been a non-smoker for 6 years; he is not overweight (he's about 5' 9"-10" & about 155 lbs, maybe) but he is muscular. He may have an alcoholic drink or beer 1-2x/month. He does not take any medications (other than OTC allergy meds) or any suppliments. The gas & headaches don't seem to coincide wiht any particular food or drink. Do you have any suggestions/recommendations to ease his pain? He recently read about some internal parasite in the intestine that causes similar symptoms (something like "gadin"?). What should we do?
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Firstly, make sure that he is not having Hypertension. Measure BP and rule it out.
In gaseous stomach, headache is common symptom. If he has associated pain with meals, visit any lab for urea breath test. He might have infection with gas producing bacteria.
start medications metronidazole 400 mg TDs for 5-7 days. Take antacids and H+ pump blockers like pentoprazole 40 mg daily or two times a day.
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Suggest Treatment For Stomach Pain,gas Formation And Headache

Firstly, make sure that he is not having Hypertension. Measure BP and rule it out. In gaseous stomach, headache is common symptom. If he has associated pain with meals, visit any lab for urea breath test. He might have infection with gas producing bacteria. start medications metronidazole 400 mg TDs for 5-7 days. Take antacids and H+ pump blockers like pentoprazole 40 mg daily or two times a day.