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- From: doyle+@pitt.edu (Howard R Doyle)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Re: colonic irrigations
- Keywords: alt medicine
- Message-ID: <3749@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 14:23:50 GMT
- References: <debbie.5@dl45.jsc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Pittsburgh Transplant Institute
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- In article <debbie.5@dl45.jsc.nasa.gov> debbie@dl45.jsc.nasa.gov (Debbie Lewis) writes:
- >>>kmarco writes...how healthy can it be to retain putrified food refuse?
- >>dyer writes...you don't
- >
- >OK, so what do you recommend as a preventative for someone like my
- >co-worker who suffered from a ruptured colon. His doctor said that
- >it was caused by a build-up of fatty deposits from his very high fat
- >diet. These fats blocked his colon and it eventually ruptured.
- >
- >dfl
-
- I would like to think that your co-worker's doctor was using artistic
- licence when he said this. If he (or she) actually said this.
-
- The colon can certainly rupture from obstruction. This usually happens
- at the level of the cecum (where the colon starts), and most of the time
- it is due to an obstructing tumor. Ogilvie's syndrome can sometimes lead
- to this, and there are other assorted conditions that may be implicated.
- "Build-up of fatty deposits from a very high fat diet..." is not one of
- them. My goodness, just think, if that were true very thirty seconds
- someone would pop his gut somewhere in this country.
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- Howard Doyle
- doyle+@pitt.edu
-