Excessive wind

I find I fart less if I reduce my milk intake. It also seems to help to prevent my ears and sinuses from becoming blocked.

Yes I’ve been using Windeze or one of the other makes for years. After childbirth, hysterectomy, living in foreign places for years, saggy pelvic floor etc. it’s worth trying anything. Boots wind pills are a bit cheaper than the other makes. Just make sure the ingredients contain simeticone 25%. I first came across it inThe USA many years ago. Have also found peppermint capsules helpful (from the supermarket). Mebeverine prescribed by Doctor no use at all.
May try some of the other things posters have recommended.

As one or two others have advised, discuss it with your doctor if it is new and you are unable to account for it by any change in diet. It is unlikely to be anything sinister, but best to get checked out.

Professor Tim Spector, a nutrition researcher at King’s College London, recommends taking care of your microbiome (the micro-organisms that live in the digestive system) by eating a Mediterranean diet, eating fermented foods like kefir and sauerkraut, avoiding junk food and cutting sugar right down.

Sugar feeds yeasts living in the digestive system. This can cause them to overgrow (become too numerous compared with other micro-organisms) or to start populating the upper digestive system, where they don’t normally live. This can cause farting.

Oldbat1

Since starting statins I am definitely more windy.

It was Metformin with me - to lower blood sugar. I’ve had to come of it. I’ve never experienced anything like it!

If you’re on regular meds, it might be worth a review with your doctor (if you can get one). I don’t know what else can be done about excessive wind. My mum used to cheerfully fart in front of everyone, and if nobody took any notice, would say ‘Ooooh, that was a loud one!’ to draw attention to it!

Alot of the above has had me in hysterics.
If farting was an oympic event,Dh would get the gold.

My sons take pride in their flatulence, with number 3 son always announcing, ‘Cashier number three’or ‘good arse’, or ‘ speak on, sweet lips that never told a lie’.
Are men much cruder than women?

windeze certainly working for my husband at the moment

Peppermint oil capsules, my gp prescribed them a few years ago Copermil saved the problem..

Lol. Reminds me when I was in my late 30s and had fisticuffs with breast cancer. I'd always been a windy baby, so my mother always said, but during and after chemo, wow... I was like a hovercraft. It was especially difficult and slightly hilarious that when I went for dinner in the day hospice, all I could think of whilst trying to enjoy the gorgeous food they served, was "Why in the actual fook is my arse continually floating above the seat! I could never get through a meal there without bouts of hysterical laughter. I think they thought I was quite mad. 'But in the end, in Wonderland, we're all quite mad'

I thought it was an age thing. My sister told me she had it a while ago but lives on her own. ?I’m getting windy and older!

Beano pills work

I hadn’t realised so many of us are so flatulent, not the sort of thing that is normally discussed outside the family! I’m definitely one of the windy brigade and will have a look at some of the remedies!

A sigh is but a puff of wind,
Which rises from the heart.
If it takes a downward trend,
It ends up just a fart!

I had the same problem plus needing to go to the toilet several times a day. I cut out gluten in my diet and I'm absolutely fine now....

I fully understand your embarrassment with this problem. I have cut down on fruit and veg which I used to eat masses of. Plums and lentil/ veg broth are particularly bad for wind. I bought windeze tablets from Boots which help a bit. People laugh at this problem but it’s not funny if you suffer from it. ?

Give lactose free milk a try xx

I tried these years ago, but found they gave me awful heartburn, which I have suffered from for years. I do have a hiatus hernia. Charcoal capsules didn’t help with wind.

Oh my goodness I've never heard of su h a thing! Maybe see your gp?

Hetty58

My friend drinks Kefir daily for that problem - and to ward off urine infections. She avoids dried fruit altogether now, as it seems she can't digest it without producing wind!

I'm pretty windy at the best of times but fruitcake makes me rocket-propelled!

In the last few years (I’m 80 now) I just can’t eat the things I always used to, like nuts and beans and leafy vegetables without needing to ‘let one go’. Oddly enough I find baked beans no more of a problem than before.
Have you ever heard Doc Cox’s rude record, from the 70s I guess.
youtu.be/jcGvgFOAi8s
Don’t listen to it if you are easily offended. I sing it to myself in the garden on windy days and hope the neighbours can’t hear me.

Ginger tea helps with acidity. Carrying on the thread through the digestive track it may well help with flatulence. Holland and Barrett do ginger tea, supermarkets usually ginger and lemon.

It might be because you have become lactose intolerant which can happen as we age … try cutting out dairy and use soya or oat milk and soya yoghurts. Give it a go for a couple of weeks . Nothing to loose and lactose intolerance causes flatulence

@Whiff

My granny used to tell me she'd seen a similar gravestone, I think she said it was in Curdworth, Warwickshire. I'll always remember what she told me it said...

Where e'er you be
Let your wind blow free
For keeping one
Was the death of me!

I've just listened to the song Minerva posted, I was practically wetting myself listening to it ?

We're all here, discussing farting, can I just add that my OH feed my dog tripe flavoured food yesterday and he's been farting noxious green clouds all night without batting an eyelid but my poor nose is definitely suffering for it.

I've got a sign on the fridge saying....

DO NOT give the dog :

Baked beans
Green vegetables (especially Sprouts)

Because they are fart bombs and cause smelly green clouds

I think I'll be adding tripe to the list when I go downstairs!