Stomach making loud gurgling noises

There's nothing worse than sitting in a quiet public space and hearing your tummy growl so loudly you're convinced everybody within a five mile radius has heard.

Funnily enough, according to Healthline, these noises actually occur in the small and/or large intestines and not necessarily in the stomach itself.

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Most of the time, these sounds are totally normal, but they may signal underlying issues within the greater digestive system, particularly if accompanied by other symptoms such as fever, nausea, vomiting, or frequent diarrhea.

Generally, though, stomach growls happen during digestion as food, liquids, digestive juices, and air move through your intestines as they work to process food.

The intestine walls are mostly muscle, which contract as you eat to transport the food through your system in a process called peristalsis, which is usually responsible for the rumbling sounds in your stomach.

The rumbling noises themselves have a fancier descriptor, as noted by Dr. Naomi Lavelle, writing in the Irish Exami