smelly wind

[thiscannotbenormal]

I name changed for this and know its an odd one but who else can you ask this stuff?

AIBU in thinking that it isn't normal for someone's farts to be so smelly that the house stinks? Fed up of my DH ruining the atmosphere in the home with this. I will be in my bedroom, all clean and nice and then it stinks like a sewer. Or, the farts in the living room make it uninhabitable and if someone calls, you can smell it through the house.
Currently, have the doors open -and the heating on-

Please AIBU, is this normal????

I wouldn't have thought so!

What does he eat?

My DH is the same but he has IBS. He decided he was totally fine yesterday and ate a korma. Even the baby looked disgusted when he farted in bed and stank out the room.

Is he doing veganuary?

Quick Google and there's actually an NHS page about excessive or smelly wind - who'd have thought! I'm interested to read that the average person passes wind 5-15 times a day (who's counting?).

Anyway there's some useful information on there about potential food intolerances and other causes that you might want to read.

@blackcat86 "even the baby looked disgusted" haha

He needs to get in the habit of going to the loo or garden to fart.

He may not be able to control every fart if he has IBS but he can minimise the smells with above.

You need to sit down and tell him it's bothering you.

Would he be billing to keep a food diary to see what foods make him fart excessively? Wheat, dairy, onions, pasta, processeed foods like biscuits and cake all can trigger flatulence.

My exh used to stink the whole house out, farted all day long, I counted once, he managed 48 in one day and that wasn’t a particularly bad day.

My sister still laughs now, saying my house always smelt of farts, it wasn’t funny for me and I’ll be honest it really turned me off him.

According to my 2 DD’s he’s still the same now, constant stinky farts. No wonder he’s still single

...its an odd one but who else can you ask this stuff?

A doctor, for one. Send him to the bloody gp. Farts that smelly are not normal.

Wheat, dairy, onions, pasta, processeed foods like biscuits and cake all can trigger flatulence. Add to that members of the cabbage family, and working with Nitromors in an insufficiently ventilated space.

I would be disgusted too. Hate it when dh has a particular smelly one... makes me feel ill. I am sure he feels the same about mine.

My dd also farts like a trooper and she is only 17 months!

I would say it's not normal if it's stinking the house to that level though....

I can make the house or office (or my car) smell repulsive when I'm going through protein shake phases 😂

Like it makes the sofa or mattress stink. You can feel it on your skin 😂

Yuck.
What is he eating? Spicy food, too much meat, pulses? It sounds horrid and need to get his diet looked at to see what's causing this. Would even be tempted to see a nutritionist.

I would find my man doing this so incredibly unattractive. I don't think I could have a sexual relationship with someone who was stinking the house out farting all the time. Don't laugh it off, explain how much you are worried about this.

At the risk of being ridiculously scare mongering - my friend had this for years. She was diagnosed with IBS but it never improved.

Sadly it wasn't IBS and it was a sign of bowel cancer. But being mis-diagnosed for 2 years meant the cancer spread and she's now Stage 4 with not long to live :(

I know it's something we can laugh at and 99 times out of 100 it's down to baked beans or sprouts...but worth mentioning maybe.

Medic here. He probably needs to get checked by a GP. Farts that stinky might be a symptom of something else.

Charcoal tablets. Lots of people are mildly constipated and need more fibre or prebiotics.

Is he doing veganuary?

This idea that vegetarians and vegans have smelly farts pisses me off no end. It’s meat eaters that have the really stinky farts and shits.

Can you get him some charcoal biscuits?

Is he embarrassed about it or does he think it’s funny? More difficult to deal with if he thinks it’s hilarious; otherwise as PPs have said, I’d be telling him to fart in the garden or the bathroom.

Do certain foods trigger it? I am very fond of broccoli but have definitely noticed it doesn’t help this! Sprouts, cabbage, lentils, beans also notorious. Curry / spicy food? Gluten used to turn my DN into a v smelly small boy?

maybe he has a food intolerance if its happening a lot.

With friend it was investigated from top to bottom, cameras both ends. Stress was the consultants conclusion.

I will try to get an appointment with a GP....incredibly difficult thing to do here.

Someone just called at the door.
And chose not to come in.

Make him go for a shit before bed. When my partner is stinking the place out with his constant farts I tell him he's not welcome in bed until he goes for a shit.

Has he been eating Brussels sprouts?

Was it DH and did he leave a calling card?

It just needs to be treated like any other illness and investigated.

It's not fair to inflict it on you all of it can be managed through diet.