A woman has gone viral after revealing a bizarre and unsettling medical journey that she claims began with a single moment: her then-boyfriend farting in her face. Christine Connell, a travel influencer known as @christinexploring on TikTok, shared the unusual story with her followers, explaining that a persistent sinus infection she endured for seven years may have stemmed from an incident in a hotel room shortly after she underwent ankle surgery.
As she lay in bed recovering, her boyfriend, while undressing, accidentally released gas near her face. “He was not clothed and standing between the two beds,” Christine recalled. “His butt was facing me and that is when the fart happened.” “He was not intending to fart in my face,” she clarified, “he was just getting in bed and my face happened to be in the path.”
Christine said she had never smelled anything like it: “When I say it was the worst fart I have ever smelled in my life, I truly mean that.” What followed was nearly a decade of painful symptoms—stuffy nose, facial pain, and repeated infections. After years of tests, scans, and consultations with four ENT specialists, doctors finally discovered the cause: E. coli, a bacterium typically found in the human gut.
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“It is E. coli,” she said in a TikTok video captioned “I wish I were joking.” Christine speculated that the bacteria may have entered her sinuses during that unfortunate moment. “You usually don’t get E.coli in your sinuses because E.coli is from poop,” she said. “So I don’t know, how does that get in your sinuses unless you have a boyfriend who farts disgustingly and you are forced to inhale it because you are immobile after ankle surgery?”
However, medical experts are skeptical. Dr. Franklin Joseph, consultant physician at Dr. Frank’s Clinic, told Sun Health: “The idea of developing a sinus infection from someone passing gas is, scientifically speaking, extremely unlikely.”
He explained that E. coli is typically transmitted via contaminated food, water, or contact with fecal matter, not through inhaling flatulence. “The gas itself doesn’t carry bacteria,” he emphasized.
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Dr. Joseph added that E. coli in the sinuses is rare but possible, particularly in immunocompromised patients or after hospital procedures. A viewer also pointed out that E. coli is a known cause of nosocomial sinusitis, often linked to nasal tubing or intubation.
While Christine acknowledges the possibility that her infection stemmed from surgery, she maintains that the timing of the fart incident is suspicious. “I think it’s actually more common to get pink eye from someone farting in your face,” she said with a laugh. Still, she admits her story is “definitely rare”—but unforgettable.
