Q&A for How to Cover up a Fart in High School Settings

My advice is that you fart while you flush the toilet. They won't hear it because of how loud the flush is.

It causes farts because it entices you to swallow air. The same is true of smoking.

No. But it could make you really uncomfortable.

You should ask if you can go to the bathroom. Just pretend you have to pee badly.

Squeeze your rectal muscles tightly to keep it in, but the fart will come out at some point. Best practice is to ask to be excused and let it go in private.

They contain gas like hydrogen sulfide and mercaptans. These compounds are produced in intestines when food with sulfur in it is broken down, such as meat, eggs, and some vegetables.

You can just ignore the accusation or you can deflect it by blaming it on someone else.

Either give an excuse and make a run or say your stomach is growling or try to pass the blame to somebody else nearby.

Blame it on someone else nearby, or own up to it and laugh it off.

Hold it back as much as you can. Even if doesn't make a sound, it can still stink and people can notice it's coming from you. If you feel you can't hold it back, ask to be excused to the restroom.

Drink plain water with no straw. Don't gulp it down, and take small sips without taking in air. Also, avoid anything that's carbonated.

Make a joke of it. Everyone has gas - even your crush.

Farting is your body releasing gas from your intestines. When you don't fart, that gas can get backed up into your intestines, which causes that rumbling sound.

He who smelt it, dealt it. If it wasn't you, push that blame right back to the blamer, or at least refuse to take it on board. Say "Hey! No, it wasn't me, I am not so rude that I would do that." Or "Hey, it was not me, I don't know who did it, but I will not accept you blaming me for it."

Most bodily emissions are considered gross. Farts smell bad, so people don't want to be subjected to them.

The sound you hear is the sound of air being squeezed out of the anus. (Think of it like letting air out of a balloon a little at a time.)

It is an unpleasant bodily function that is closely related, if only through its location, to our genital organs. All these things require us to be discrete about it. Nobody likes to draw people's attention to the anus. Also, we are all trying to make life as comfortable as possible for everyone around us, so when someone farts in a group, everybody suffers. You caused everyone to feel a little bad, and that is embarrassing. But in the end, it's just a fart; everyone does it, so don't worry too much.

That's one of the tried-and-true techniques to handle this situation. Just know that flatulence is not only stopped by your sphincter; that's only the last line. If you allow everything to go to that last line, the urge to release will be considerably stronger, so it takes a lot of practice to then let it go in small, quiet bursts. But yes, it does work.

A typical fart is composed of about 59 percent nitrogen, 21 percent hydrogen, 9 percent carbon dioxide, 7 percent methane and 4 percent oxygen. Only about one percent of a fart contains hydrogen sulfide gas and mercaptans, which contain sulfur, so yes, farts contain a small amount of sulfur.

Nothing will happen if you hold in your farts.

Not unless it exits with an awful lot of force.

This falls under the term "constipation". It means the natural exit of feces is blocked or difficult, and it includes solid excrement, liquid excrement as well as gaseous excrement.

Yes, very. Sometimes it might even get you blamed back. If you do happen to pass gas, just say "pardon me" and take the blame.

You can try, but most people will be able to quickly determine that you're trying to cover up for yourself.

The sound is produced by the vibration of your sphincter muscles and the end of the colon. If you learn how to control those muscles so you can relax them when you flatulate, the channel is open more widely and the sound can be reduced or eliminated entirely. Look into Kegel exercises to learn how to control those muscles.

Do your best to hold it in. If you can't, excuse yourself and find a bathroom.

Laugh along with everyone. You could say something to ease the tension like, "Lucky for you guys I'm nearer the teacher than you guys this time!".

Yes, it's normal, you're just embarrassed. Go to school anyway. Either everyone will have already forgotten all about it, or you might get teased a little bit, and then everyone will have forgotten about it by the next day. If you get teased, just laugh along with everybody else, like, "Haha, I'm sorry, I just couldn't hold it in!" If you seem like you're in on the joke, people won't really make fun of you.

Don't mention it, people will most likely forget very quickly. If you keep quiet, they won't remember.

Tell your teacher you need to go, and embarrass them by saying something along the lines of "if I don't go, I will have to do it right here in class". They should not be forcing you to stay in class if you need to use the bathroom.