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How to stop belching associated with Fish Oil supplements?

If your body is not used to digesting fish, you may enzymes that break down the fish oil. Lack of these enzymes results in belching, flatulence, and other disorders.

Reducing the amount of fish oil, or a composition of fish oil with other oils does not resolve the problem. As you take the fish oil pill every day, after about a week your body will start creating enzymes to breakdown the oils. It may take up to 2 months.

Following steps will help reduce the discomfort.

1. Make sure the fish oil supplements are fresh and not near the expiration date. Time and temperature may make fish oil rancid and more difficult to break down

2. Keep your fish oil supplements in freezer. The fish oil does not freeze. It will lower the temperature to extend time for the enzymes to break it down.

3. After taking fish oil, always get some thing to eat. You want the fish oil pill on the bottom of the food in your stomach.

4. Start with one supplement pill per day till your body has become used to it. Then you may add another pill.

If you are fortunate, belching will stop in one week, otherwise you have to wait longer.