Would a diarrhea enema work? Why?

[Akashic Retard]

You can be hydrated by a water enema, so could you hold your diarrhea long enough for it to be re-absorbed into your body and hydrate you? Is a cork the solution to dysentery?

 

[Obi Wan Kenobi]

Well the cause of diarrhea is plenty (infection, some meds, stress etc.), but the effect is that your small intestines and large intestines pass the chyme (food matter that has been mixed with your stomach acid) too fast, which causes for you to have watery shits, the watery shit is mostly caused because of your large intestine as it is the one absorbing the water and minerals, whlist your small intestine absorbs lipids (fats), proteins, carbohydrates and any other macromolecules, that even include nucleotides (DNA and RNA's monomer's building blocks). So yes, if you could somehow hold your shit in long enough, slowing down your bowel movements to the normal pace (what you have when you dont have diarrhea) it could be re-absorbed into your body.

TLDR: yeah

 

[MavisBeaconTeachesSnipin]

So yes, if you could somehow hold your shit in long enough, slowing down your bowel movements to the normal pace (what you have when you dont have diarrhea) it could be re-absorbed into your body.

that's kind of like saying if you didn't have diarrhea then you wouldn't have diarrhea. if you just corked your butt you'd still have building pressure in your body. maybe you'd vomit up shit before your guts explode but I don't think hydration is in the cards.

 

[Boris Blank's glass eye]

There's a medical procedure called "stool transplant" which involves the transplantation of fecal microbiota from a healthy person to a sick one, and yes, it can be done via enema.

I hope this answers your question.

 

[Aunt Carol]

I think there's clarification needed. Rectal rehydration uses the same mechanism and route, but not the same speed, as an enema.

If the fluid goes in quickly, it's likely to go out quickly; as with diarrhea, the problem is holding all that fluid in the body. The fancy setup for rehydration via rectal infusion is a Murphy drip, which has a drip chamber and everything.

So if you can hold stool or water in, your large intestine absorbs water and electrolytes from it--but if you can hold stool in, you don't have diarrhea.

Definitely food for thought, OP.

 

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You can be hydrated by a water enema, so could you hold your diarrhea long enough for it to be re-absorbed into your body and hydrate you? Is a cork the solution to dysentery?

Hydrated by a water enema​

No. Enemas basically cause something like diarrhea but not from the same cause; washing out the large intestine. Your intestines use salt and water to for stool (poop). Your stomach absolves fluids not you intestines. Also the water coming up into your stomach would be infected with whatever was lower down in your intestines; things that are not supposed to be in your stomach. Even if you forced water into your stomach from your anus there are simpler and better options available.

To become hydrated, you can drink water. If you can't drink water your can have a Saline bag hung and you can be hydrated intravenously. The reason for using Saline (salt water) and not pure water is if you were taking water intravenously you could over dose and screw up your body's blood-salt level which would cause your cells to burst for taking on too much water. This is called water toxicity and it's very rare for drinking water normally because you will louse you desire to drink water and need to pee before your blood becomes too hydrated from drinking water. Cells need to have a balance between the salt inside them, in cytoplasm, and the salt in the the water (blood) that the cell is drowned in. What even side, inside or outside the cell, has the least salt, water will move away from reducing the concentration of the salt. cytoplasm is naturally a little bit salty, so you want the salt difference between the blood and the cytoplasm to be negligible (very little difference) to keep cells only taking water that they need.

Dysentery​

Dysentery is a symptom of bacteria infection. It can not be cured by Enema or Diarrhea Enema. In all cases involving the symptom of Dysentery, removing the cause of the Dysentery is the cure. Simple answer, take anti-bionics to get rid of the bacteria and the Dysentery should also subside.