Diarrhea is usually caused by the body dumping water into your intestines so I was wondering if holding it in would help with dehydration?

I currently have food poisoning so that’s why I thought of this.

  • Björn Tantau@swg-empire.de
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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.

    In case you question my credentials, I’m the developer of Diarrhea 4.

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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.

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      “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

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      4 days ago

      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.

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      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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      Games a fun Lunar Lander-like but its too easy. I got up to 15 Liters of poo and just held the button down. Could be an interesting challenge if the screen didnt scroll back down and you had to get the powerups before you pass them

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        Yeah, I have a ton of ideas for improvements but no energy to implement them. My initial concept included aliens you’d aim your poo stream at to shoot them down.