The smell of DS's farts has got beyond a joke

[MaryMotherOfCheeses]

Honestly, and it's not just a one off. At times it's really frequent. And it's been going on for a while.

What would you do? (he's 8 btw)

What's he eating?
Any food allergies?

If you have a diet high in beans, veg and fruit then he will have stinky farts! Do you eat a lot of stew?

stop feeding him beans?

sorry not helpful but I do feel for you. My ds has farts that need serious ventilation. It is not pleasant.

hope you actually get some sensible advice.

I'm wondering about diet but don't know where to start. I wouldn't say he eats anything odd or excessively. And it's on the better side of normal I'd say, in that there's some junk in there, but mostly ok stuff.

No food allergies. Used to be allergic to cows milk protein as a baby so of course I'm wondering if its a hangover from that. But I'm sure it's worse than it used to be.

Don't know whether to concentrate on more fruit / veg though he must be at 4 or 5 portions a day already. I know it should be deffo 5, but it's not that far out,is it. Some kids eat less than that and don't stink like this. Or whether it could be something else.

What normally causes these things?

I don't think we eat a lot of beans I don't fart like he does.

Does he have dairy now? You could try switching to goat's milk and see if it makes him less windy. If I have any quantity of cow's milk I have explosive poos and noxious wind about 24 hours later. (Sorry if TMI )

mmoc....my ds gets stinky trumpets and his breath stinks in the morning if hes overdone the dairy - he used to have a v bad intolerance to dairy but can eat some now and suffer the consequences.

(as an aside, what does Gwarchodwr mean? I know the Plant bit...)

Dairy and wheat I've heard to cause problems sometimes. It can also be caused by hormones (but somehow couldn't see an 8 year old boy having hormone problems - yet).

I would go the food route. Maybe ask the gp what way you could go about adjusting his diet to see what it is that's affecting him.

What do they smell of? If they're sulphorous then a probiotic might help.

It is truly the most minging smell I have known.

Honestly.

At best I would say they smell like mouldy ready salted crisps. Will ask DH if he would describe it as sulphurous (in style of wine connoisseur) !

A healthy diet of beans, fruit and veg shouldn't be causing that kind of stink.

i thought of a probiotic but not one of those useless sugar filled yoghurt drinks though, a capsule or powder. You can get banana flavour powders that you add to food.

DH said bad eggs.

Apologies for TMI here

Humphrey, that sounds interesting. Do you add it to a glass of milk or something? Or could I put it in a yogurt? Do you get it in chemists?

Also, what normal foods should I be thinking about increasing to avoid having to use a probiotic?

Ew! Two thoughts apart from beans; food allergy (dh is coeliac and that was one of the 'effects' pre-diagnosis) & also that prior to the late phase pre-diagnosis of diabetes for ds2, he was incredibly windy as his high blood sugars caused that delightful symptom.

There'd be other symptoms with both of those, though surely? Nowt wrong with the child apart from the smells from his backside.

Has he had an antibiotic at all lately? If so I would give a probiotic definitely. You can get them from health food shops. Sorry I don't know about useful foods except live yoghurt.

Pixie, as I said in my post, these symptoms came before the late phase ones which were indeed huge thirst and need to urinate. Coeliac is linked closely to t1 diabetes as it is part of the same cluster of auto-immune diseases.

But, I hope it's neither of the above, nor anything else illness/disease-wise, just wanted to clarify from personal experience.

Farts are a sign of fermentation rather than digestion, often a result of eating too much carbs that feed those fermenting bacteria.
Add probiotics and limit sugars and carbs and see how it goes. Even replacing wheat (which is harder to digest than other carbs) with rice, potatoes, millet, buckwheat should make a difference.

Make him go to the loo his bowels are full!!!

MMOC- it means Child Minder

Ah, diolch yn fawr

TBH there's farting and there's farting. I find it hard to believe that smell is the sign of a healthy gut.

I think danthe4th might have a point. He's been ok the last couple of days Thank goodnes!

similar problem with ds - wholewheat cereal is a contributory factor.