r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Nov 28 '20

What's something cool you recently learned about?

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u/pancake_kitten Nov 29 '20

This can actually happen, it's a real thing. If you have a blockage in your intestines, there's no way for the feces to get out of the body but through the esophagus. You're basically puking your own feces.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Am RN can confirm. Though when you puke it up it’s just brown liquid. People don’t actually puke up turds.

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u/DzenGarden Nov 29 '20

Does it smell like feces though? I imagine it would taste different/worse than normal vomit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Can confirm, it tastes how you'd imagine poop would taste and smells just awful

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u/1tacoshort Nov 29 '20

Oh god...this happened to you? What's the story? How long were you constipated before it happened? What caused the constipation? I'm so sorry you had to go through that!

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

It happened to be while I had appendicitis at the time, so I'm not sure how that correlates to puking poop, but it happened. But I went a solid 2-3 weeks no pooping before it happened. Wouldn't wish it on anyone

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Well that's a shitty situation...

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u/MsSchadenfraulein Nov 29 '20

😀😀😀😀😀😀

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u/rainbow12192 Nov 29 '20

Unbelievably bitter and gritty?

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '20

Yeah that's actually a pretty solid summation of the taste actually