Prevention, Treatment for Smelly Gas | Remedies for Smelly Fart
Smelly Fart Treatments
- Smelly farts are a result of weak digestion. Usually when you consume your food it gets expelled as stools within 16-20hrs. This is the normal time required by your stomach and intestines to digest your food. In case this time is lengthened fermentation takes place and releases gas. This is expelled as flatus.
- Evacuation of the stools is incomplete can also cause smelly fart. Antibiotics and ameobiasis usually change the intestinal flora and lining and leads to improper digestion of the food resulting in smelly fart.
- Certain vegetables and food items which are useful as fiber and avoid cancer formation some times produce gas and this result in smelly fart.
Things which cause gas are beans, wheat bread and cabbage. Smelly farts can be produced because of intolerance of lactose. There is an enzyme in our digestive tract called as lactase which helps breaking down of lactose which is a complex sugar. People in who do not have this lactase are bound to have large production of gas after consumption of milk and milk products. Other causes are pulses and greasy food and fried food. - Avoid all things which cause gases as they ultimately lead to smelly farts.
Home Remedies for Smelly Gas
- A mixture is prepared with two parts of ajwain (seeds of celery) along with one part of sauph (aniseeds).
One can add sugar for taste if required. This should be taken in dose of one teaspoon mixed with warm water or water can be taken after having the mixture. One gets instant relief from smelly fart and problems of gas. It also helps in regularizing digestion of food. - Squeeze a lemon into a glass of warm water and drink it every morning empty stomach. Every night before going to bed drink a glass of warm water. This will help in improving your peristalsis and thus prevent smelly flatus.
- Stimulant laxatives are high in anthraquinones, which stimulate bowel muscle contraction. The most frequently used are senna leaves and cascara segrada bark. Cascara is milder of the two. Senna is powerful and is likely to cause intestinal pains. Add a pinch of ginger or fennel to reduce them.
