Intestinal gas poses surgical problems
Q :Well, excuse us, but when might stomach or intestinal gas have far more explosive consequences?
A :Forget those flame-throwing flatulators of college campuses of the 1960s. For this one, you can just ask your doctor: Surgical teams must take precautions to ensure that fires and explosions do not occur near or within a patient, since about 40 percent of the gas in the large intestine may be hydrogen and methane, ...
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