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Why do people have flatus?
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Many reasons: As you talk or eat, you swallow air bubbles in your saliva. Some foods produce gas as you digest them. Extreme flatus that's horribly smelly and is accompanied by weight loss warns of serious malabsorption / maldigestion.
Answered 9/19/2012
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