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.
Doctor: You’re actually even more full of shit now.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
