djprocess;235075 wrote:
i heard this story, not sure if its true about this girl who had a phobia of going for a shit, so didnt go for one for months until it started coming up and out of her mouth! thinking about it now that does sound like somebodys been having me on… :hopeless:
I’ve heard of this too
I think if you have chronic bowel obstruction it can happen, found this on the net:
Faeculent vomiting is a cardinal sign of a bowel obstruction in the large intestine. I have seen it happen in a number of patients. You need to seek medical help urgently.
fecal vomiting. yes, fecal vomiting.
Please go to A&E or your DR Now…
People had always thought that fecal vomiting was just a myth.
It doesn’t seem possible that poop could make its way back up through all of the twists and turns and supposedly one-way doors of the intestinal tract and then make a grand exit through one’s mouth. But it is possible indeed.
For this to occur, there has to be something VERY WRONG with you. Fecal vomiting is most definitely a MEDICAL EMERGENCY that requires IMMEDIATE ATTENTION!
The human body has natural survival reflexes that cause it to expel harmful poisons from within. This explains why vomiting and diarrhea are associated with food poisoning, bacterial or viral infections, and so on — your body is trying to get rid of bad things. Even without having poop in it, vomit is not pleasant by any means. Vomiting (technically called “emesis”) is when the contents of your stomach are forcefully ejected through the mouth. So how would poop get back into your stomach?
It is in the intestines when food takes on the characteristics of poop — not in the stomach. In normal digestion, once food has left the stomach and descended into the small intestine as a liquidy substance called “chyme,” it is usually well on its way to the large intestine and then out of the body through the rectum. The valves that pass the chyme from each section of the bowels are pretty much one-way access.
But as we all know, sometimes things are not always as they should be.
Pretty much the only thing that can cause things to go in reverse here is an obstruction in the bowel. An obstruction can either cause things to slowly pile up — leaving a foot in the door, so to speak — or can trigger a spasm in the muscles of the intestinal walls that forces the contents of the bowels back into the stomach.
Where things really start to get tricky is the underlying cause of the obstruction to begin with. It could be caused by a tumor, a twist or crimp in a section of the intestine, or compacted fecal matter from prolonged constipation that has caused a backup all the way to the opening of the stomach.
Fecal matter is a waste product filled with toxic stuff waiting to exit. It has no business being in the stomach, and the stomach knows it. The victim usually experiences significant abdominal pain and bloating from the obstruction before eventually vomiting.
Again, the most important fact here is that vomiting feces is a MEDICAL EMERGENCY. If you see and smell **** coming out of your mouth, that is your body’s way of telling you to get your *** to a hospital NOW. Vomiting the feces out is only buying you a little bit of time. If the obstruction that caused the **** to back up in the first place is not located, cleared, and repaired, really bad things can happen — things that, if not treated, will most likely result in your death. fecal vomiting is not a myth.
