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Having a drink?
This is stupid because you'd essentially be holding onto the toxins that your body is trying to expell. Please just shit and drink water.
A major function of the colon is water absorption. The membrane is so small that viruses would be too large to get through.
If you have diarrhoea, it may have been caused by bad food, something you may not want to be absorbing, which may be why the body is trying to purge it ASAP.
You wouldn't be absorbing "bad food". The body has diarrhea because it is unable to absorb water in the colon. It's unable to absorb water in the case of food poisoning because the bacteria that grew in the food is creating a protein that blocks the water absorption receptors in the colon lining.
Okay...but you certainly want to be getting rid of toxins, not holding them in your body. That makes no sense.
The body does not have diarrhea as a protective mechanism to purge the bacteria that caused the food poisoning. The bacteria is secreting a protein that inhibits water absorption which causes diarrhea.
Preventing or reducing diarrhea would be a beneficial outcome for a bacteria infection such as ETEC whose cause of death is dehydration.
This is by no means an endorsement of OP's hold it in strategy.
Ok well let's just pretend you have food poisoning and you hold in the bacteria but still somehow shit the rest of the food/water out, but you keep hydrated. Like what happens to all the bacteria you're now holding in your body? I'm genuinely curious. I'm not arguing against you at all!
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Hopefully not. Diarrhea is used to flush bacteria and poisons out of the body. I guess if the body would regain the water it could also regain the bacteria.
Just drink a lot of water and let your body do the work it needs to do.
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Play the fartastically funny new game Diarrhea 4 (not to be confused with Disgaea 4).
This fucking killed me thank you for it.
"Hopefully my bowels aren't able to absorb water?"
That's literally their job. There are filters, you don't absorb waste from your colon, but water and nutrients.
The colon is the longest part of the large intestine. It receives almost completely digested food from the cecum, absorbs water and nutrients, and passes waste (stool or feces) to the rectum. The colon is divided into 4 parts: The ascending colon is the start of the colon.
Diarrhoea is often a problem with the absorption of water in the colon instead of the body "flushing water" into your digestive tract.
Like the main job of the colon is water absorption, so the digested mush turns into stool that can be deposited in the rectum for to be expelled through the anus.
If that absorption doesn't work then it's just coming thorough and that's diarrhoea
Diarrhea isn’t necessarily “used” by the body in all cases. With things like rotavirus and Vibrio (cholera) it’s caused by the infectious agent and aids in its spread. It can be so severe it kills the person via dehydration.
I thought diarrhea was (at least sometimes) caused by too many of your gut bacteria getting killed by fever so they can’t digest solids enough to extract the water.
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Eventually the pressure will overcome your sphincter strength. And its fluid - it only needs a tiny tiny hole to Come out. And its going to happen much faster than you think.
We have the technology…
yeah, don't hold diarrhea, you will not win.
It's not to be reabsorbed, just absorbed.
Your body uses water to absorb nutrients. Diarrhea is when your colons run in overdrive and pump out their contents before the water is properly absorbed.
If your body thinks whatever is in your bowels is not safe and dumping it out the other end, you should find a toilet.
Some people think it’s funny but it’s really wet and runny.
Okay so how come spicy food makes the intestines not bother digesting it?
I can tell you that this is not universal. I eat very spicy food on a regular basis, and it does not give me diarrhea.
I can't remember a time that it did, either. I remember when I felt the burn, twice, but not from diarrhea. Is it possible that it's not the spice, but the spicy food? For instance, is your body reacting to the greasy chicken wings instead of the capsaicin?
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That's the
your body thinks whatever is in your bowels is not safe
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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8909049/ (2022 Feb 25)
In summary, mice were intragastrically administered with CAP at three doses to evaluate the effects of CAP on GI health. The results showed that administration of 40 mg/kg CAP did not have significant negative effects on the GI tract in mice, while 60 and 80 mg/kg CAP caused GI injury by damaging GI tissues and decreasing the levels of anti-inflammatory cytokines (IL-10). Inflammation and histopathological changes were significant in the jejunum, ileum, and colon, but only slight in the stomach. CAP increased serum SP and CGRP levels in a dose-dependent manner, which may induce an immune response and visceral pain. The levels of cecal SCFAs also significantly changed in the 80 mg/kg CAP-treated groups. These effects of CAP might be related to the regulation of gut microbiota, especially Bifidobacterium, Lactobacillus, Faecalibacterium, and Butyricimonas. Moreover, the underlying mechanism of the correlation between serum neuropeptides and specific gut microbiota needs to be studied, suggesting that probiotics, as members of the gut microbiota, may be an alternative in relieving CAP-induced GI injury. These data will reveal the effects of CAP on GI health, provide insight into the experimental model of CAP-induced GI injury, and enrich the correlation analysis between CAP ingestion and gut microbiota.
It looks like it's still being studied. For now, I guess you can resolve it to being an irritant when ingested in larger quantities than your body likes.
Yes, but that would be a bad thing
Your body is flushing all that water into your intestines because it detected something bad and decided to get rid of it fast. The longer the bad thing stays, the worse, so it just firehose blast it out.
If you keep it in, first you'll have to deal with the increased pressure, not good for your intestines. Then your body will have to deal with whatever it is that is bad for you.
Better just go to a bathroom and a doctor if you're still having it after 2 days
Holding it in is antithetical to the concept of diarrhea
Yeah, if you hold it in you will absorb more of the water. Generally, though, your body dumping stuff out of it is a defense mechanism for expelling stuff that's probably better off left alone. Though I guess you could do and hold some enemas for the same effect without potentially retaining things your body wants to expell.
Doctor: You're actually even more full of shit now.
Have you had lot of success in your life trying to hold diarrhea?
For the most part yeah. Just don't trust a fart.
I once white knuckled a bus ride with no option to stop for 3 hours. Probably 10+ times I was sure the wave of pain was gonna be that wave
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Is this some kind of sequel or spin-off?
Holy fuck that was TWO YEARS AGO!?
I read that and I regret it. Like I have crippling horny disease too but that's too much even for me.
Like I have crippling horny disease too …
Lol I read that and I think I regret it. What is crippling horny disease? What does it have to do with that infamous post?
It just means I'm horny as most of us are. What I meant is I understand horny makes us do things, as it made OP barely eat for 3 days for anal sex I assume. I'm not as dedicated as OP.
I don't have any personal experience with it, but a buddy of mine who does once explained to me that unless you like it poopy then your bowels should be voided much sooner than three days ahead of anal sex.
That sounds impracticable.
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