Making changes to your diet or lifestyle may help lessen the symptoms of digestion problems, experts from Baylor University Medical Center suggest.

Health professionals from the center recommend people who are experiencing nausea, bloating, constipation, diarrhea or heartburn report the symptoms to their doctors, who may be able to suggest dietary changes.

For example, if you can connect your stomach pains with milk, you may be lactose intolerant, they suggest, adding that certain types of meals eaten at particular hours of the day may also trigger symptoms.

However, altering your dietary habits may not clear up every digestive complaint, the physicians add. “While food is the first thing we think of with digestive disorders, not all of them relate to food,” explains Dr. C. Richard Boland, chief of gastroenterology at the university.

He suggests natural remedies and stress reducers as some of the additional health resources people may use to treat their stomach problems.

In fact, a number of people have turned to probiotic nutritional supplements when they experience abdominal discomfort from digestion.