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That matters, because when you know where the complaint can come from, you know better what you can do yourself. In the morning your trousers fit and by the end of the afternoon they do not. You undo the top button and you wonder what you ate that was wrong. A bloated belly rarely has one cause, and &#8220;too much gas&#8221; is almost never the explanation. The causes vary: what you eat, how your gut senses stimuli, how quickly the contents pass through and how your abdominal wall and diaphragm react. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/scan-gut-symptom-test\/\">The BioProfile gut scan<\/a> measures how much these complaints affect you, and gives you an indication of where you stand today in this area, as the first of the 11 health areas the full scan assesses. This is not a diagnosis. It is insight, to see where you stand today. And to help you make better choices in your food and lifestyle. What this scan does not do: point to a cause or make a diagnosis. Only a doctor can do that; when to go to your GP is set out below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-verify bp-blog-verify--top is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas.webp\" alt=\"Portrait of Justinas \u0160likas\" class=\"wp-image-5796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas.webp 800w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas-240x300.webp 240w, https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rt-portret-justinas-slikas-768x960.webp 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-verify-name wp-block-paragraph\">Verified by <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/experts\/justinas-slikas\/\">Justinas \u0160likas, PhD<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-verify-cred wp-block-paragraph\">PhD in chemistry from the University of Edinburgh<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-verify-date wp-block-paragraph\">Checked on 25 September 2026<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-takeaways is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In short<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li>A bloated belly is rarely caused by more gas: people with chronic gas complaints had about as much gas in the gut as people without complaints.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Almost 18 per cent of people have it at least once a week, women about twice as often as men.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/li>\n\n\n<li>A gut scan gives you an indication of where you stand today with your symptom load over the past few weeks, and a starting value. It is not a diagnosis, and this scan does not point to a cause.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-toc is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-toclabel wp-block-paragraph\">Contents<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\n<li><a href=\"#hoe-vaak-een-opgeblazen-buik-voorkomt\">How often a bloated belly happens<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#waarom-je-buik-uitzet-ook-zonder-extra-gas\">Why your belly expands, even without extra gas<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-eten-ermee-te-maken-heeft\">What food has to do with it<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-een-darmscan-meet\">What a gut scan measures<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-een-darmscan-niet-meet\">What a gut scan does not measure<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#wat-je-met-je-score-doet\">What you do with your score<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li><a href=\"#veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/a><\/li>\n\n<\/ol>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"hoe-vaak-een-opgeblazen-buik-voorkomt\">How often a bloated belly occurs<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a Rome Foundation study among 51,425 people in 26 countries, almost 18 percent had a bloated belly at least once a week, for three months. Women reported it about twice as often as men, and the complaint became less common with age. Of those who had abdominal pain weekly, more than six in ten also had a bloated belly.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It rarely stands on its own: in the same study, more than 40 percent of the online participants met the criteria for at least one functional stomach or bowel complaint.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">3<\/a><\/sup> The best known is irritable bowel syndrome, which about one in 25 people in the Netherlands has.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"waarom-je-buik-uitzet-ook-zonder-extra-gas\">Why your belly expands, even without extra gas<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The picture of a balloon filling up is usually wrong. Back in 1975, researchers measured how much gas sat in the gut of twelve people with chronic gas complaints: 176 millilitres on average, against 199 millilitres in ten people without complaints. No difference. What did differ: in those who developed pain, the gas took longer to pass, and the same amount hurt more.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">1<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Where the swollen belly does come from was shown by scans. In 56 people whose main complaint was a bloated belly, a CT scan was made at rest and during a severe episode. With a functional bowel complaint the contents of the abdomen barely increased, by 0.3 litres, while the abdominal wall came forward by 14 millimetres: the diaphragm dropped and pushed the contents forward.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup> In a follow-up study, twenty people with this complaint and fifteen without were given the same amount of gas in the gut; in the people with complaints the diaphragm contracted instead of relaxing, and their belly expanded more.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A bloated feeling and a belly that measurably gets bigger are also two different things, and they often occur together.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-eten-ermee-te-maken-heeft\">What food has to do with it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some people, food does a lot. In a controlled study, thirty people with irritable bowel syndrome ate a diet low in fermentable carbohydrates for three weeks and an ordinary Australian diet for three weeks. Their symptom score was 22.8 on the first diet and 44.9 on the second, on a scale of 100; in healthy people the diet did nothing.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">8<\/a><\/sup> A diet like that is work for a dietitian, but it shows that what you eat plays a measurable part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-een-darmscan-meet\">What a gut scan measures<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The gut scan asks six questions about the past few weeks: the form of your stools, belly pain or discomfort, a bloated feeling, how regularly you go, reflux or heartburn, and complaints after certain foods. Each question is given points, the points are added up and converted into a gut score from 0 to 100, with the reading band it falls into. Higher is better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The questions are modelled on two validated symptom scales. The Bristol Stool Form Scale reads the form of your stools as a signal of how fast your gut works: in 66 volunteers, the form matched the measured transit time more closely than how often they went.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">9<\/a><\/sup> The Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale rates stomach and gut complaints with fifteen questions, and that set-up is our model.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">10<\/a><\/sup> The questions about pain and food follow how the Rome IV criteria describe the pattern of complaints, only to describe your pattern and never to establish anything.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">11<\/a><\/sup> Our questions are written by us, not a copy, so the score is not a validated clinical score. What you get is a structured picture of your symptom load and a starting value.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-een-darmscan-niet-meet\">What a gut scan does not measure<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A questionnaire reads the load you describe. It cannot see whether this is irritable bowel syndrome, an intolerance, coeliac disease or something that clears up on its own. That needs a doctor, and sometimes blood or stool tests. So a gut scan does not make a diagnosis. A low score means that looking further makes sense, and nothing more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Your GP asks questions and examines your abdomen; tests at the hospital are usually not needed. Three things are a reason to make an appointment: blood on or in your stools, your weight going down without you knowing why, and getting bowel complaints for the first time when you are 50 or older.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"wat-je-met-je-score-doet\">What you do with your score<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most people start by cutting things out: first the bread, then the onion, then the milk. A month later you still do not know whether it did anything, because you never wrote down where you started. A score from today is that starting value. Repeat the scan a few weeks later, on the same questions, and you have two numbers instead of a feeling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you want to do something in those weeks, write down when your belly swells up and what you ate that day: that is what a GP or dietitian can work with.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-cta is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Measure where you start<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Six questions about the past few weeks, about three minutes, and your gut score is in your dashboard. What the gut scan measures and what it is based on is set out on the scan page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/scan-gut-symptom-test\/\">Start the gut scan<\/a><\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-ctamicro wp-block-paragraph\">Free, about 3 minutes. An analysis of your answers, never a diagnosis. <a href=\"https:\/\/bioprofile.com\/en\/free-health-check-tests\/\">All health scans<\/a><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--wash is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"veelgestelde-vragen\">Frequently asked questions<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is the cause of a bloated belly?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no single cause. A bloated belly can come from food you tolerate poorly, an earlier gut infection, a gut that feels stimuli more strongly, slower transit, or a belly wall and diaphragm that respond wrongly to ordinary gas.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">7<\/a><\/sup> In a functional gut complaint, that last one was often the mechanism.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is a bloated belly a sign of irritable bowel syndrome?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It can be part of it. The criteria: abdominal pain that came back at least one day a week on average over the past three months and is linked to at least two of these three: your bowel movements, a change in how often you go to the toilet and a change in how your stool looks; the complaints started at least six months earlier.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">11<\/a><\/sup> About one in 25 people in the Netherlands has it.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup> Whether your complaints fall under it is something only a doctor can say.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">When do I go to my GP with a bloated belly?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If there is blood on or in your stools, if your weight goes down and you do not know why, or if you are 50 or older and get bowel complaints for the first time.\u2060<sup class=\"bp-blog-sup\"><a href=\"#bronnen\">4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-faq-item is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Can a gut scan tell me which food to leave out?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No. The scan asks how often you have complaints after certain foods, as one of six questions. Which food that is, is work for a dietitian or a doctor, with a diary of what you ate and when your belly swelled up.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group bp-blog-sec bp-blog-sec--beige bp-blog-sec--tight is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"bronnen\">Sources<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bp-blog-srclead wp-block-paragraph\">Every source below was checked on the day this article was published. The numbering follows the text.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list bp-blog-refs\">\n\n<li>Lasser RB, Bond JH, Levitt MD. The role of intestinal gas in functional abdominal pain. New England Journal of Medicine, 1975. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJM197509112931103\">doi.org\/10.1056\/NEJM197509112931103<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Ballou S, Singh P, Nee J, et al. Prevalence and associated factors of bloating: results from the Rome Foundation Global Epidemiology Study. 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Stool form scale as a useful guide to intestinal transit time. Scandinavian Journal of Gastroenterology, 1997. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3109\/00365529709011203\">doi.org\/10.3109\/00365529709011203<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Svedlund J, Sj\u00f6din I, Dotevall G. GSRS: a clinical rating scale for gastrointestinal symptoms in patients with irritable bowel syndrome and peptic ulcer disease. Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1988. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/BF01535722\">doi.org\/10.1007\/BF01535722<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n<li>Lacy BE, Mearin F, Chang L, et al. Bowel disorders. 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