Ok this was of those dumb questions that comes up when you are talking with your sister or something.
You know situation like when you’re around alot of people and it is quiet so you really don’t want to let that sucker out. So you hold it. Well what happens to it when you hold it?
Obviously it was some gas from the stomach that needed to be expelled and now you are holding it in. Well, where does it go? Do you burp it out or does it just sit there until you can fart it out later? Or does it just dissapear?
Also is it unhealthy to hold it in? (That would be a perfect excuse to let’em out in in elevator huh. )
It is* painful to blow up your guts like a balloon. There have been times when I held in flatus and lived to regret it: sharp, stabbing, pinching, agonizing pains. It can take up to an hour to pass all that wind (usually in dribs and drabs) after you’ve forced it back inside. Be afraid, be very afraid.
Oh, it goes back up your intestines & becomes a burp.
Gotta chuckle at this from that URL:
“Dr. Michael Levitt, a Minneapolis gastroenterologist who is probably the world’s leading expert on flatulence, tells of a
somewhat gassy patient who was having a rectal polyp cauterized one day and unexpectedly exploded on the operating table”
My aunt used to say, Wherever you may be, let your wind break free. A true poet.
And sometimes, when you hold it back, it becomes a stomach cramp. That happens to me every once in a while. I just find a lonely spot and let loose, and poof goes the cramp.
Best of luck, Wildest Bill, in letting the farts go free.
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