Is it Normal to Fart (pass wind) alot??

Answer 1

According to the Facts on Farts website, we fart about half a liter of gas per day - that is more than a coke can full of farts a day. This works out to be, on average, fourteen per day.

Women fart as much as men.

Whether this is a lot or not is a matter of opinion - perhaps it depends on how bad they smell (and that depends on what you eat).

Answer 2

It all depends what you deem to be excessive gas. Some one could fart 20 times a day and think that is normal. another possibley thinks it might be normal to fart less than this or greatly more than this.

The number of farts you do is governed by the types of food you eat it is the body's natural way of expelling gas. Beans, eggs, cabbage, pickled onions (ord onion also) are types of food renouned for the explosive anal qualities.

But just one well placed fart in a small elevator would be one too many!!!

I have never worked out why this subject brings so many giggles fffffrrrrrrppppptttttttt oops

Answer 3

About 10-15 times is the average, but it depends on your diet. Foods that contain Oligosaccharides (sugar chains 3-9 molecules long) give you a bigger volume of gas, these are contained in beans and onions among other things. It's Sulphur compounds from cabbage, eggs and again onions that gives it the smell. These are broken down into Methane, which is odourless and Hydrogen Sulphide which stinks. Your farts also contain the various gasses in our atmosphere which you swallowed while eating.
If your a farting a lot, and I mean like every few minutes and they make people run for the hills change your diet. Lots of fruit and veg, lots of fibre and lay of the junk food.

Answer 4

The other day in my physiology class the lecturer told the class that the average person passes wind about 14 times a day.If you are exceeding this number by far take a look at your diet. Cabbage, cheese, beans, ice-cream and even potatoes are foods that make you "fart more"...

Answer 5

Yes - it can be

But you can do some things about it

Some drugs make things worse so checks the s or with drug info leaflets or with your doc

Also certain foods (you know the ones!) can make it worse as the gut bacteria naturally make more of a meal out of them converting more to gas - So try avoiding such things - you may have to try off different things which make you worse.

Answer 6

No! U have a problem. Try changing your diet - change over to a healthy one and stop the junk food, drink a lot of water and exercise regularly. It will help u in the long run...

Answer 7

I read recently that it is quite normal, approximately 14 times a day!

But how and where you do it, does rather reflect on the person.

Answer 8

yes it is,only natural and sign of a healthy colon...mine is very healthy thanks.
let your wind be free,cos it was a fart that caused the death of me,on a gravestone in Dublin My Mum told me!

Answer 9

yes it's normal to pass wind but not all the time.
Need to look at your diet and exercise more.
Exercise gets rid of unwanted wind.

Answer 10

It is usually triggered with certain food, especially if you eat late at night, that can cause a lot of trapped wind...