Coma Poo Question

BLIXEMPIE

BLIXEMPIE

Honorary Master
Joined
May 22, 2009
Messages
10,453
Reaction score
1,578
Location
Pretoria, South Africa
This was literally some random question that popped into my head yesterday. I was sooo tired but struggled to fall asleep and was thinking about a controlled self-indused coma in a hospital and what it would be like. When you're in a coma, whether it's a self-indused one or otherwise, how does one shit? I mean, I can understand how you can pee with a catheter attached and get nutrients through a drip, but how do coma patients poo?
 
Yip, they put an absorbent nappy underneath you, but remember that they don't defecate in the same way that you and I would, as they are fed nutrients in liquid form, so they expel a liquid straight out, if anything at all. You also get rectal catheters but I've never been interested in learning too much about those...
 
There is very little poo because you are not eating all the extra bits an pieces you would normally have.

Your energy requirement is minimal, you sit and veg all day, the liquid food they give you is pretty much all absorbed by the body.

Your poo is all the stuff that your body can't digest or absorb...
 
BLIXEMPIE said:
:sick:
Click to expand...

I don't think there'd be all that much smell to it, considering they aren't actually eating anything that would contribute to the smell. I also doubt it undergoes the traditional "browning" process. I'd imagine it's more of a clear(ish) brown liquid with little smell to it at all. Probably not as gross as it sounds, although I'd not like to clean it up, nonetheless...
 
They use catherters waste bags for urine. Denpending on how fragile the patient is they can use dipers to shutting the GIT down completely feeding you IV (TPN)

Some cases they do this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colostomy
 
I once was on a drip for a week with nil per mouth. I never had to go to the toilet to poo.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X