Does seafood make you fart more?!
Question:
Does seafood make you fart more?
The other day I ate seafood (mussels) and I was farting all night. the farts smelled absolutly terrible it woke me up plenty of times. The next day I was still farting the same. Anyone who know what this means or what seafood has done to me? Thanks
Answers:
You could have an allergy to mussels, or to something that was cooked with them to make them taste better ... MSG, garlic, onion, etc. Also you could have been 'farting' because you ate WAY TOO MANY mussels and not enough other food ... mussels don't have much 'fiber' and if you are used to eating more fibrous foods, you could have 'temporarily blocked' your intestines while they were 'digesting' the mussels, and the 'farts' were from the 'usual stuff' that you eat with more fiber being 'sort of stuck' in your intestines. I know, it's all 'icky' but that is the 'medical explanation' of why the mussels gave you 'the farts' ... I eat TONS of seafood, much of it raw (I LOVE SUSHI and SASHIMI) and I have very few 'farts' except when I get sick and my 'digestion' goes out of whack for the few days that I am ill.