Ryan,

There's nothing that helps with that kind of gas, because the gas from both
wheat and sugar alcohols it is caused by undigested carbs getting into your
small intestine where helpful bacteria digest them for you via fermentation.

If you'll remember, a by-product of fermentation is gas.

The reason you get this happening with wheat after low carbing is that after
you stop eating wheat for a while, your body stops making the enzyme needed
to digest it. So the wheat passes into your gut and ferments there. This
problem goes away in a few days if you keep eating the wheat. But the sugar
alcohol problem does not because your body may not ever make enzymes to
digest them. (Some people do, which is why maltitol doesn't cause gas for
some people.)

Beano can help with the gas from wheat but not with the sugar alcohols. It
is an enzyme that breaks down starches.

BTW, combining Beano with prescription starch-blocking meds like Acarbose
will undo their helpful effect on carbs.
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"Ryan" wrote in message
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With so many new reduced carb products coming out these days that
include Sugar Alcohol, I was wondering if anyone has found an over the
counter medication that can be used to help counter the negative
reaction so many of us have.

I find in order to stick to a low-carb diet, I must at times have a
treat. However, if I eat the smallest amount of Sugar Alcohol I am
left with gas and bloating for hours. The "anti-gas" meds in the drug
store seem to have no effect on the problem at all.

A simular reaction happens when I am eating very low-carb and eat a
regular sweet, so having a small piece of candy or baked good with
regular sugar doesn't solve the problem, it just causes a similar one.

I know others have reactions to Sugar Alcohol and am wondering what
you take when you have a reaction? Certainly, people just don't sit
and suffer there has to be something you keep in your medicine cabinet
that helps calm things down.

Until they find a Sugar Alcohol that doesn't cause any issues when
being digested, I'd like to have something on hand just in case I need
it.

Thanks!