Diarrhea is usually caused by the body dumping water into your intestines so I was wondering if holding it in would help with dehydration?

I currently have food poisoning so that’s why I thought of this.

  • @Dasus
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    93 days ago

    “Hopefully my bowels aren’t able to absorb water?”

    That’s literally their job. There are filters, you don’t absorb waste from your colon, but water and nutrients.

    The colon is the longest part of the large intestine. It receives almost completely digested food from the cecum, absorbs water and nutrients, and passes waste (stool or feces) to the rectum. The colon is divided into 4 parts: The ascending colon is the start of the colon.

    Diarrhoea is often a problem with the absorption of water in the colon instead of the body “flushing water” into your digestive tract.

    Like the main job of the colon is water absorption, so the digested mush turns into stool that can be deposited in the rectum for to be expelled through the anus.

    If that absorption doesn’t work then it’s just coming thorough and that’s diarrhoea