Fecal Odor

[wesley75]

I posted a while back about fecal odor I've been experiencing but haven't heard an replies yet. I would like to update what I said as today at work I experienced a different trigger to my odor problem. A couple days ago the GI specialist told me to drink Kefir mixed with yogurt once a day as he thinks the smell is coming from a flora imbalance. I told him I have been taking very strong probiotics for 3 months now and I'm allergic to milk. He said to drink it anyways as it won't affect me. To make a long story short I drank one serving and when I went to work this morning the smell returned at it's peak. I worked for 1 hour and I started omitting the strongest rotten egg odor ever that would follow me everywhere. I almost sure it was coming out of my mouth because it would come then go away for 10 minutes. Before all this happened I experienced a very strong acidic sour smell like I had acid breath and I did feel somewhat dehydrated. When I got my endoscopy done a year ago it came back that I had acid reflux and he gave me protonix for 2 week and it would go away. When I eat or drink irritating foods like orange juice, alcohol, strong sugar, coffee, advil it triggers it without a doubt. I was reading that the lower oesophageal sphincter can become lazy and stay open. Could it be possible the milk made it stay open and the gases from my stomach are leaking out. It sure seems like that is what happening. It's real potent bursts of rotten eggs/sulfur that amits really quick and then goes away. Does anybody have an experience with this? If you do can you please get back to me? I would really hate to lose another job over this. Thanks so much!!  

[teebee1234]

Did you ever find out what was causing the smell? I seem to be suffering for the identical issue.

[wesley75]

I am now completely off all dairy. I can tell it's still in my system though. Nobody in my family has celiac but I am getting tested Friday. Thats what the Dr. was thinking too. For the overgrowth I've been taking Oregano Oil and colloidal silver with strong probiotics for 3 months now and haven't seen any improvement. He is also testing me for H. pylori because I mentioned it but he thinks I don't have it for sure. It's weird though I get the rotten egg odor almost within 10 minutes of eating those certain foods. Just like a door opening letting all the potent gases out. It's just so hard to think it's getting absorbed into my blood and letting this potent odor out so quick. But anything is possible. I always thought it was candida/Leaky Gut going into blood stream and sweating it out but after today it almost felt like I was blowing it out. Very frustrating!!  

[CalGal]

Are you off of all dairy? And anything with casein in it? Casein is the protein in milk and it can be just as bad a drinking milk.

The other thing I'm wondering is - is anyone in your family celiac, and do they have to stay away from wheat, rye, barley and oats? In some with celiac, they're cross-reactive to casein.

Typically with celiac, you can have fat malabsorption and that can cause a foul odor, although no quite like fecal material............but I'm wondering if there could be a connection in your case. It's a wild shot, but it might be worth a try to go gluten-free and make sure you're casein-free and see what happens.

Another thought might be to be checked for small intestinal bowel overgrowth (SIBO). Your symptoms don't completely fit, but?