{"id":9019,"date":"2019-07-11T09:59:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-11T13:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=9019"},"modified":"2019-07-11T16:27:03","modified_gmt":"2019-07-11T20:27:03","slug":"why-do-farts-give-me-pink-eye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/07\/11\/why-do-farts-give-me-pink-eye\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do farts give me pink eye?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"318\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw071119-5.jpg\" alt=\"Why do farts give me pink eye?\" class=\"wp-image-9010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw071119-5.jpg 320w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw071119-5-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw071119-5-300x298.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/aw071119-5-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><figcaption>Why do farts give me pink eye?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p> A search on PubMed bit.ly\/BCPubMed (the major database of the biomedical sciences) for the subject terms &#8220;conjunctivitis&#8221; and &#8220;flatulence&#8221; brings up no results. Equally the National Library of Medicine&#8217;s medical information for laymen, MedlinePlus, has no notes about  farts in the entry on pinkeye <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/PinkEyeMedlinePlus\">bit.ly\/PinkEyeMedlinePlus<\/a>, but it does say causes include &#8220;substances that cause irritation.&#8221;  I can only assume your farting is quite irritating&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A search on PubMed bit.ly\/BCPubMed (the major database of the biomedical sciences) for the subject terms &#8220;conjunctivitis&#8221; and &#8220;flatulence&#8221; brings up no results. Equally the National Library of Medicine&#8217;s medical information for laymen, MedlinePlus, has no notes about farts in the entry on pinkeye bit.ly\/PinkEyeMedlinePlus, but it does say causes include &#8220;substances that cause irritation.&#8221; &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2019\/07\/11\/why-do-farts-give-me-pink-eye\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Why do farts give me pink eye?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[669,533,668,667],"class_list":["post-9019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","tag-conjunctivitis","tag-farts","tag-flatulence","tag-pink-eye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9019"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9025,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9019\/revisions\/9025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}