India, July 7 -- Maintaining good gut health is paramount to maintaining overall health. However, issues with the gut are very common and experienced by almost everyone despite our best efforts. On top of that, the symptoms are not always obvious, like diarrhoea or stomachache.

Taking to Instagram on July 6, Dr Kunal Sood, a Maryland-based physician in Anesthesiology and Interventional Pain Medicine, shared six such signs of poor gut health that can be easily recognised at home if one knows what they are looking for. They are presented as follows.

Feeling bloated after meals is not always about how much a person has eaten. Sometimes, bloating can stem from gut issues like constipation, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO), irrit...