are you actually inhaling other people's fecal matter during fart?

Question

microscopic little fecal particles floating around, and you inhale them, do you exhale them again or do they get absorbed into your body?
Why does this not spread disease (like fecal contamination might)?
Doesn't this make farts even more gross??? (to think of (someone you don't know) their particles floating around......so if you smell it you've already ingested it.

Answer 1

No you aren't inhaling fecal matter. It's a mixture of gases, some of which are flammable, meaning you can ignite your fart, but don't do that because it has caused severe burns.

Answer 2

The $mell of $hit comes from chemicals called indoles and skatoles, NOT methane primarily. And those indoles and skatoles are a part of poop. So in a technical sense yes, you inhaling "particles of poop" when you smell someone's fart, but at a molecular level. These particles are WAY too small, much smaller than bacteria, and so do not cause disease. By the way, not everyone's poop has disease-causing bacteria. I'd say MOST people don't have them.

Answer 3

Yes, it's true--but it might not be fecal matter, just particles and methane resulting from the gas. "Farts" are nothing more than methane gas. Try Googling it and see if you can get more info.

Answer 4

well yes, every time you smell a fart, its somones butt gas that youre inhaling and the fact that it comes from where your fecal matter is, it makes it smelly.

Answer 5

All smells are particulate. So yes, you are inhaling microscopic pieces of matter whenever you smell something.

Answer 6

No you won't, the guys undergarments and pants would have filtered it out already.

You are, however, inhaling methane particles.

Answer 7

Just keep saying outloud to yourself 5x im a smart fellow im a fellow smart and you will never smell another ---- again it really works!

Answer 8

farts smell so that deaf folk can also enjoy them

Answer 9

There are germs in farts.

Answer 10

You have tooooo much time on your hands....