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Could use your help docs! my fart sometimes smells like leaking cooking gas. why?

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

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Flatus: Fermentation in the GI tract can cause gas and can cause the gas to be malodorous.

Dr Cattano and 3 doctors agreed

Answered 4/13/2016

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