I recently attended a Primary Care update in Las Vegas where the
final lecture was entitled " New Developments in the Diagnosis
and Treatment of Intestinal Gas" ( I jest not...).
During this presentation I learned that healthy subjects pass gas
on average 11 times per day ( upper limit of normal being 19 ).
Women fart less often than men and are usually more fragrant!
This was all evidence based , you know , using a device called
a "toot trapper".The enthusiastic Dr Levitt went on to verify the
existence of the SBD and informed us that 99% of gas is
odourless! He suggested that dietary manipulations to control
farting worth trying should be restricted to limiting excessive
amounts of carbohydrate substrate arriving in the colon such as
lactose, legumes and wheat although rice is OK. In those
patients with particularly "odiferous flatus" try divalent
cations such as bismuth ( ? de-nol ) or iron.
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> Seriously.A female patient of mine has been to see me on a couple of
> occassions saying that her farts smell so bad her husband can't stay in
> the same bedroom. Thankfully she didn't demonstrate. Change in diet,
> charcoal tablets have made no difference.I thought I'd come across
> everything that a doctor is supposed to be able to put right but this is
> new to me. Any ideas?
> Best wishes,
> --
> Peter Glover
> Churh View Surgery
> Rayleigh
> Essex
>
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Dr Paddy Quail
301, 1640 16th Avenue NW
Calgary, Alberta
Canada T2M 0L6
tel: 403 221 4370
fax: 403 221 4371
http://www.ucalgary.ca/~quail
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