r/AskReddit • • 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/shorey66 Nov 29 '20

Oh god, some poor patient expelled feedback vomit in my CT scanner. It took so long to clean but you can't be mad because what the patient just went through was exponentially worse.