Periods suck. But the horrible, horrible gas might be the worst part of it all. Here's why you get bad gas during your periods — and how to help the bad smell during that time of the month:
Though accidental farting can make you want to die, farts don’t usually mean something's wrong your health—even if they’re stinky. “Smelly gas is usually the result of bacterial fermentation of food/stool matter in the colon,” Dr. Tuyama explains. Totally normal gut bacteria feast on the foods you eat and produce smelly sulfur-containing compounds in the process. “Smelly gas is often associated with consuming a fiber-rich diet that includes foods high in sulfur,” she says.
But if you don’t get pregnant and instead get your period, the GI floodgates open. “It’s not your imagination if you get diarrhea when your period first starts,” Dr. Bartos says. During PMS week, “everything was held in” by progesterone, she says, and now it’s, well, exiting.Something else is going on that's contributing to all your farting. Compounds called prostaglandins are released when you get your period; they prompt the lining of the uterus to shed, Dr. Wain explains.
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