Is it normal for someone to have so much wind?
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I am an extremely long suffering wife as my husband has really excessive wind (seriously). Is this normal? He keeps on telling me that men pass wind much more than women but his is all the time, even men complain about it. This is a serious post I've even had to join up as a new member because he wants to remain anonymous.
No, it's not normal. It's probably diet related. He might have something like a lactose intolerance (the undigested lactose ferments in the intestines), or he's drinking too much fizzy stuff (i.e. beer), though I'm sure there are others.
Get him to see a doctor, or at least go ask a pharmacist for something to help.
Get him to see a doctor, or at least go ask a pharmacist for something to help.
grumbledoak said:
No, it's not normal. It's probably diet related. He might have something like a lactose intolerance (the undigested lactose ferments in the intestines), or he's drinking too much fizzy stuff (i.e. beer), though I'm sure there are others.
Get him to see a doctor, or at least go ask a pharmacist for something to help.
+1Get him to see a doctor, or at least go ask a pharmacist for something to help.
Most likely a bad diet or something in his diet causing it.
I rather disappointingly rarely pass wind on my good diet.
Mr E Driver said:
It's your fault for feeding him junk food 
Onion rings do it for me, if I eat a dozen I fart well into the next day
What ever he eats he constantly has wind. The only time I can remember him not having wind was when he went on the Atkins Diet. Onion rings do it for me, if I eat a dozen I fart well into the next day
A few years I made him mention it to our GP but my husband told me the GP said it was normal. I've mentioned it to my mother-in-law who just says, "he has funny guts like me". She gets trapped wind but it comes out like an almighty burp not the other end like my husband. She also suffers with diverticulitus and has to take Fibrogel but he doesn't have that problem.
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