I have some padded bike shorts I'd like to wear on a bike ride, but I'm getting pretty in my head about poop particles getting into the shorts and not washing out in the wash.

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[–] 23 points 2 months ago (12 children)

Wash your ass crack well and often. If it's smelling, you aren't cleaning it often enough. If it's leaking, see a doctor.

Don't know why you'd think a clothes washer wouldn't do the job it's intended to do. If your clothes are coming out of the wash dirty, that's a different problem.

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  • [+] [S] -9 points 2 months ago (11 children)

    Have you ever tried washing exercise clothes? The smell persists.

    Farting is normal, and i assume that with the gas escaping, little poop aerosols come out too. Not something any doctor can help with. It's just part of being human.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    My exercise clothes come out the wash as fresh as a daisy, and they have been through a lot and get washed at 30C.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Maybe that is a difference -- i usually wash them as cold as possible to try to make them last longer. I could try washing them on a warmer setting.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)
  • [–] [S] -4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    If you can smell a fart, you are smelling poop aerosols.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Not necessarily, gasses smell too.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    I hadn't considered this! So when you poop in the toilet, the bad smell is partially from gases, not entirely from airborne poop particles?

    I'm also really sketched out about how belly button lint is from underwear, but i guess that's off the topic.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Definitely partly from the gaseous byproducts of digestion, yes.

    Also poop aerosols, but not exclusively.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    That makes a lot of sense. I searched and found a good article on the subject: https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/48224/20240117/why-poop-smell-bad-science-behind-unpleasant-odor-stool.htm

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skatole?wprov=sfla1 (this is a volatile, airborne chemical)

    This is from the Wikipedia article on human feces. Did not link it because content advisory: pictures of human feces. According to this, it is mostly volatile organic compounds, and I'm not seeing anything about smell aerosols.

    Odor

    Feces possesses physiological odor, which can vary according to diet and health status. For example, meat protein is rich in the amino acid methionine, which is a precursor of the sulfur-containing odorous compounds listed below.^[12][13][14][15][16]^ The odor of human feces is suggested to be made up from the following odorant volatiles:^[13]^

    (H2S) is the most common volatile sulfur compound in feces.^[13]^ The odor of feces may be increased when various pathologies are present, including:^[17]^

    Attempts to reduce the odor of feces (and flatus) are largely based on animal research carried out with industrial applications, such as reduced environmental impact of pig farming. See also: Flatulence#Management, odor. Many dietary modifications/supplements have been researched, including:

    Ok, this is really weird. According to the flatus page, it implies that some people have complete voluntary control of their gas releases...?? It doesn't come as a surprise to them??

    Incontinence of flatus

    "Gas incontinence" could be defined as loss of voluntary control over the passage of flatus. It is a recognised subtype of faecal incontinence, and is usually related to minor disruptions of the continence mechanisms. Some consider gas incontinence to be the first, sometimes only, symptom of faecal incontinence.^[14]^

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