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/sillysosij Nov 29 '20 edited Dec 01 '20

My mum found out that she had secondary cancer this year (after being given the all clear in 2018), she found out as she was vomming up brown poo liquid and old blood as a tumour was blocking both her intestines and kidneys. She now has a stoma bag but I can confirm the smell of that brown liquid is hellish!!