Colon Gas and Flatus Prevention Diet

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What Is Normal?

Believe it or not, there is really a limited amount of information in the medical literature on this socially important question. Everyone will have her or his own idea of what normal is. Here is some general information that medical texts provide.
  • The amount of colon gas produced per day ranges from one pint to several quarts.
  • The number of flatus passages per day may be as low as 7 in females and up to 20 or more in males. An average is probably 10-13 flatus passages per day.
  • Men create more colon gas than females.
  • So do smokers. Don’t ask why. We don’t know.
  • Beer drinkers have smellier flatus, probably because most beer contains significant amounts of sulfur.
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