This Is Why You Should Never Hold In A Fart

Farts can make you feel embarrassed in public because sometimes they are out of control. It is a fact that every person farts every day, but some people are dealing with a bloated stomach and that comes along with excessive flatulence more often than others. And those people are having bigger trouble to be in public because they can’t control the gas.

Let us first define you the term fart. 

Fart is also known as gas or flatulence. During the process of digestion and respiration it is formed an internal buildup of gases which causes fart. Every person has different development of farts within the digestive tract.

The farts that will make you feel uncomfortable and embarrassed in public are the ones which are noisy and foul-smelling. But sometimes they can be easily hidden and unnoticeable.

Farts are often good for your health, but in some cases they can a sign that something is not right, especially when it comes to digestion of certain foods. Healthy person farts 14 to 18 times every day, but most of the times you can’t have the right number of how times you farted, because some of them are silent and odorless. But the number of how many times you have farted is not important as it is the smelliness of them, because the smell can be the indicator of some digestive symptoms.

If you eat often whole foods and you have a high-fiber diet, then flatulence is normal in that case, but if the excessive gas comes along with other symptoms that can be a warning. What can result in subtle dysfunctions in intestinal motility, bacteria growth or changes in the microbiome composition taking place is when the normal gas dynamics have become compromised, and that can be noticed if you fart too much.

The Makings Of Fart

Nitrogen is the main type of gas that leads to flatulence (20 percent to 90 percent). Besides nitrogen, carbon dioxide is another type of gas that contributes to the gaseous volume of farts (10 percent to 30 percent), oxygen (10 percent), methane (around 10 percent) and hydrogen (10 percent to 50 percent).

Have you ever wondered how in the cartoons, characters light their farts with a flame? Well we will answer to your unsolved mysteries from your childhood, and that is by the 2 flammable gases that are present in farts, hydrogen and methane.

The combination of gases mentioned above causes a smell most of the times because some of them contain sulfur, the same smelly compound found in foods like eggs or cruciferous vegetables.

We already mentioned that the development of farts depends on the person, and by that we mean that it depends on how much air is swallowed by that person, the types of foods consumed by that person, and also the internal chemical reactions are taking place during digestion.

What has to do with the foul smell of farts is the percentage of different gases present in the body at that time, and only around 1 percent of the gas has to do with that smell because most of it is odorless.

There are several sulfur-related compounds that contribute to develop to the intensity of the fart’s smell and they are:

-Dimethyl Sulphide (smelliness of veggies)

-Methanethiol (similar smell to cruciferous veggies, such as cabbage or broccoli)

-Hydrogen sulphide (smells like rotten eggs)

The Underlying Causes Of Farting

Excessive gas and gas pains can be attributed to all sorts of health problems, normal variations in hormonal levels that affect digestion or specific foods. The gas formed in the body is the same although it triggers from person to person.

The gas goes through the same pathway in your digestive as poop. If somehow the gas is stopped it can cause indigestion, bloating and gas pains. That is a sign that your body can’t get rid of the gas, and that is so in most of the cases because certain foods are irritating your gut or digestive organs.

The gas has trouble to get out of your body because of the following reasons:

-Constipation

-Gaseous odor accumulation

-Changes in the microflora

-Swallowing air (eating too fast and not chewing your food properly)

The reason for either your farts will be noisy or silent is the alignment of muscles within your colon or rectum. What can cause a sound are certain muscles that help with the control of how quickly the gas is released, either tightly keeping gases inside or allowing them to be released faster.

Are Farts Bad For Your Health? Can Flatulence Be Beneficial?

It is a fact that farting is a normal reaction and it should not worry you, because it is similar to burping, and for normal metabolic functions, farting has important role.

Farting can also be a sign that you are having healthy diet. Foods that tend to cause gas are high in fiber, and they also feed good bacteria that will boost your immune system.

What can be also beneficial are the gases within your farts although that is not a proven fact. Farts contain specific gases and those gases can be a good protection against diseases like cancer. There was early evidence suggesting about that.

What can help in small doses to protect cells mitochondria and to stop cellular damage at some level is inhaling hydrogen sulphide from your very own farts.

If there is excessive gas, then it might be some of the following reasons:

– SIBO (small intestinal bacteria overgrowth)/excessive bacteria in the small intestine.

-food sensitivity or intolerances

-leaky gut syndrome or digestive disorders such as irritable bowel syndrome, celiac disease and Crohn’s

If you have other symptoms when you have excessive gas, then you should be worried, and here are those symptoms:

-blood in your urine or stool

-pain around your lymph nodes, including in your groin, throat or armpits

-changes in body temperature, weight, sleep and menstrual cycle

-constipation or diarrhea

-skin rashes, acne or hives

-signs of allergies, like watery eyes, itchy throat

-weakness or fatigue

The Keys To Finding Gas Relief

If you want to put an end to the bad gas you might need to make changes in your diet, because certain foods are hard to break down by some metabolisms.