How do you sanitise the area to prevent infection? If you get surgery on the rusty sheriff’s badge, how does it not get infected the next time you lay an otter egg? Do they connect a colostomy bag in that case, to give it time to heal?

You can get a lethal infection from a paper cut if the right (see: wrong) bacteria get into it. Short of piledriving a snooker cue coated with hand sanitiser, I don’t know how a filthy corridor of doom like the excretory system can be kept free of bacteria after Dr. Bussy Torn MD has been rooting around in there with his weed whacker.

Surely antibiotics aren’t enough on their own to prevent infection? Anywhere else in the body, sure, but the chucklet waterpark is like ground zero for biological malevolence. It would be like wearing nothing but a steel showercap to keep mosquitos from biting you.

What dark arts are surgeons invoking here?

  • @breadsmasherEnglish
    8•8 months ago

    I just googled for this, because I vaguely recall a relative having something like this?

    Check out this article specifically

    With some colorectal surgeries, you may have an ostomy—an opening created surgically to allow for stool or other wastes to exit—temporarily or permanently placed to address your condition.

    I think part of your question related to how its kept clean after surgery? I think this addresses it

    • @automattable
      6•8 months ago

      But if you make another hole upstream, how do you allow that to heal? It’d be extra holes all the way down up.