You’ve probably been privy to all manner of jokes (and attempted jokes) about emitting burps from your mouth or gas from your other end. In reality, everyone passes gas multiple times per day—it’s a natural, healthy bodily function after all.
But the laughs all come to an end when someone realizes that there is something abnormal and beyond their usual daily gaseous emissions. To be frank, when you go from occasional bloat and release of gas to acute, lengthy periods of feeling bloated (and extra gassy), there could be something more than meets the nose going on.
