Excessive wind

Try doing pelvic floor exercises.

You should be able to isolate the muscles around your anus and tighten them as if you are trying to stop passing wind. Try 10 reps and then rest, build up slowly

The same applies to muscles around the vagina and urethra, try lifting and tightening these (without tightening around the anus) as if you're trying to stop a wee. Again start with 10 reps and increase

Have a look at Elaine Miller's video (aka Gussie Grippers/Grips) - a physio who tackles the subject with humour!

Never realised how lucky I have been, none of my family suffered from flatulence, just wasn’t mentioned. I think it must be more common in certain families so they all have it. .

You may get an answer in some of this reading:

www.webmd.com/healthy-aging/does-flatulence-increase-as-you-age

www.agingcare.com/articles/what-causes-flatulence-in-the-elderly-164293.htm

www.nhs.uk/conditions/flatulence/

www.nhsinform.scot/illnesses-and-conditions/stomach-liver-and-gastrointestinal-tract/flatulence

Omg some of these answers did make me laugh!! ?
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this problem! I'm about to turn 63 on friday and I've noticed this last year that I too somehow can't control the little pops that suddenly come out when all is quiet, or in a supermarket when standing next to someone that is asking you to reach something off a shelf for them as I'm taller!! I'm silently thinking to myself, it's not all you'll get from the shelf, as I'll get it for you along with a free slightly noisy aromatic smell!!!?
It's like these little pops of wind just fall out, and I cant control them! Highly embarrassing though it is!

Thank you for the laugh though grandmajulia6, for putting this post up, and all of you that have responded with your experiences, and helpful tips. I'm off to buy some peppermint capsules!

Whiff

I am windy both ends . I'm 64 and got to the point where I don't let it bother me. One of my uncles used to say even the Queen farts and her poo doesn't smell of roses .

Just try and put up with it. My mother used to fart with every step but she said it's better than having a tummy ache.

Other people pick their noses and teeth which they can stop as they choose to do that. Which to me are awful habits .We can't help when we break wind.

My husband used to say let the wind be free for want of a fart killeth me . He said he saw it on a grave stone when he was young . ?

Where er' you be let the wind blow free, for, 'twas was the wind that killeth me! My Grandad used to say this was written on a gravestone ?

Gongoozler

I hadn’t realised so many of us are so flatulent, not the sort of thing that is normally discussed outside the family! I’m definitely one of the windy brigade and will have a look at some of the remedies!

A sigh is but a puff of wind,
Which rises from the heart.
If it takes a downward trend,
It ends up just a fart!

???

I believe you PamQS,Dh woke me the same way,frightened the oogey moogeys out of me.

timetogo2016

Alot of the above has had me in hysterics.
If farting was an oympic event,Dh would get the gold.

I’m not exaggerating, one night I was woken by my husband farting very explosively in his sleep.

I suffer , very embarrassing, will try some of these remedies, but won’t hold my breath because it will just come out the of the other end!

I belong to a very active group of 10 ladies. One always sits/stands next to me and is constantly breaking wind - very smelly - and I have to, discreetly, tell the others that it wasn’t me!!

Possibly food intolerances make us become more windy! I think I'm now lactose intolerant which, as others have said, can develop with age as we produce less of the enzyme lactase which breaks down the lactose. I've started taking soy milk and have ordered some lactase. There are some suggestions that taking lactase is better than cutting out milk etc completely as we need calcium to keep bones strong. Many of us are no doubt on calcium tablets anyway! The joys of ageing.

This thread has had me in stitches. My dad was very windy and he had dreadful constipation. Nothing helped him with either . He was funny. My dad he used to say teeth marks on the toilet seat again. Mom just rolled her eyes and said hope you sprayed the air freshener.

We should take a leaf out of young children's book and take no notice when we fart or as my grandson says trumpelled . My uncle called it coughed in your rompers when his sons where young. ?️

I am not bothered about being unable to have a ‘like’ button after posts but I would like a ‘funny’ button. I love threads like this which make me laugh.

When I realised that I'd joined the club of the 'wind step' , I gave up worrying and let the rest of the world worry instead.

Oh and I've acquired the skill of blaming others without saying a word!

We're all here, discussing farting, can I just add that my OH feed my dog tripe flavoured food yesterday and he's been farting noxious green clouds all night without batting an eyelid but my poor nose is definitely suffering for it.

I've got a sign on the fridge saying....

DO NOT give the dog :

Baked beans
Green vegetables (especially Sprouts)

Because they are fart bombs and cause smelly green clouds

I think I'll be adding tripe to the list when I go downstairs!

I've just listened to the song Minerva posted, I was practically wetting myself listening to it ?

@Whiff

My granny used to tell me she'd seen a similar gravestone, I think she said it was in Curdworth, Warwickshire. I'll always remember what she told me it said...

Where e'er you be
Let your wind blow free
For keeping one
Was the death of me!

It might be because you have become lactose intolerant which can happen as we age … try cutting out dairy and use soya or oat milk and soya yoghurts. Give it a go for a couple of weeks . Nothing to loose and lactose intolerance causes flatulence

Ginger tea helps with acidity. Carrying on the thread through the digestive track it may well help with flatulence. Holland and Barrett do ginger tea, supermarkets usually ginger and lemon.

In the last few years (I’m 80 now) I just can’t eat the things I always used to, like nuts and beans and leafy vegetables without needing to ‘let one go’. Oddly enough I find baked beans no more of a problem than before.
Have you ever heard Doc Cox’s rude record, from the 70s I guess.
youtu.be/jcGvgFOAi8s
Don’t listen to it if you are easily offended. I sing it to myself in the garden on windy days and hope the neighbours can’t hear me.

Hetty58

My friend drinks Kefir daily for that problem - and to ward off urine infections. She avoids dried fruit altogether now, as it seems she can't digest it without producing wind!

I'm pretty windy at the best of times but fruitcake makes me rocket-propelled!

Oh my goodness I've never heard of su h a thing! Maybe see your gp?

I tried these years ago, but found they gave me awful heartburn, which I have suffered from for years. I do have a hiatus hernia. Charcoal capsules didn’t help with wind.

Give lactose free milk a try xx

I fully understand your embarrassment with this problem. I have cut down on fruit and veg which I used to eat masses of. Plums and lentil/ veg broth are particularly bad for wind. I bought windeze tablets from Boots which help a bit. People laugh at this problem but it’s not funny if you suffer from it. ?