What’s with the stomach growling at night?

Gurgling stomach at night may be caused by physiologic factors such as easily gas-producing food or excessive hunger, or it may be related to pathological factors such as gastrointestinal dysfunction or incomplete intestinal obstruction. 1. Physiological factors: (1) Excessive hunger: if you have not eaten for a long time, making the gastrointestinal tract too empty at night when you go to bed, it will cause your stomach to grumble. (2) Easy to produce gas food: dinner consumed easy to produce gas food, such as soybeans, sweet potatoes, etc., these foods through the digestive tract decomposition, fermentation, in the gastrointestinal tract to produce carbon dioxide and other gases, along with the gastrointestinal tract peristalsis, it will be issued by the gurgling sound. 2. Pathologic factors: (1) Gastrointestinal dysfunction: Gastrointestinal dysfunction due to various reasons, such as functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, etc., will also cause the stomach to make gurgling sounds. (2) Incomplete intestinal obstruction: this disease can cause hyperactive bowel sounds, which directly manifests itself in the form of obvious and more frequent grumbling sounds in the abdomen. There are many reasons that cause the stomach to grumble at night, after the appearance of symptoms, go to the hospital in time to identify the cause of the disease, under the guidance of the doctor for standardized treatment.