Just as everybody poops, everybody has gas. But the reasons why you break wind can vary, and sometimes it can be cause for concern.
“As a pediatric gastroenterologist, I get asked about this all the time,” said Dr. Mark Corkins, division chief of pediatric gastroenterology at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center. “There are two sources of ‘gas,’ and not all gas is gas. Part of what we pass is air. We all swallow some air, and some people swallow a lot of air. Now that seems to be odorless.”
Some odors are more pungent than others for these reasons, experts said, but there aren’t any smells that are red flags. “The old classic is beans, and there’s a protein in beans that tends to be difficult to digest,” Corkins said. “Some people will, alternatively, have trouble when they eat a lot of red meat,” Chey said. “In fact, pretty much everybody, if you eat enough red meat, you will not be able to properly digest or absorb all of it, and it’ll get down to your colon where it’s fermented to produce gases and chemicals.”
“We’ll interrogate patients on each of those different factors — diet, microbiome and function of the GI tract — and try to correct some of those things that we think may be contributing to problems with flatulence,” Chey said. “If somebody’s eating a typical Western diet that contains a lot of processed food and carbohydrates, sugars — reducing that and eating a healthier diet can be really helpful.
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