Flatulogenic:
Adjective
flatulogenic (comparative more flatulogenic, superlative most flatulogenic)
- Tending to produce flatulence. [Wiktionary]
Noted in “Anal gas evacuation and colonic microbiota in patients with flatulence: effect of diet,” Chaysavanh Manichanh, et al, BMJ:
Objective To characterise the influence of diet on abdominal symptoms, anal gas evacuation, intestinal gas distribution and colonic microbiota in patients complaining of flatulence.
Design Patients complaining of flatulence (n=30) and healthy subjects (n=20) were instructed to follow their usual diet for 3 days (basal phase) and to consume a high-flatulogenic diet for another 3 days (challenge phase).
Ever since my kidney stone attack of 13 months ago, I’ve been afflicted, and I began wondering if my gut biome was transformed by the antibiotics that came with the two surgeries and subsequent urinary tract infection. The executive summary of their findings?
When challenged with flatulogenic diet, patients’ [that is, subjects prone to flatulence] microbiota developed instability in composition, exhibiting variations in the main phyla and reduction of microbial diversity, whereas healthy subjects’ microbiota were stable. Taxa from Bacteroides fragilis or Bilophila wadsworthia correlated with number of gas evacuations or volume of gas evacuated, respectively.
Wadsworthia, hah! But it’s not entirely clear how to use these findings. I’ll have to glance through the text of the study.
