Overview

• Christine Connell was recuperating from surgery in a hotel room when her boyfriend inadvertently released a fart directly into her face.
• She endured chronic sinus infections with facial pain, congestion, green mucus and recurrent fevers over seven years.
• A TikTok post led doctors to take a nasal culture that revealed E. coli bacteria in her sinuses.
• Medical experts say her post-surgical immobility and weakened immune system likely enabled the rare bacterial growth.
• Connell has begun a course of targeted antibiotic treatment to eradicate the E. coli infection in her sinuses.