by Carlhole » Tue 02 Jan 2007, 22:58:10
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Falconoffury', 'I')'m still very surprised that people in the health care field are arguing so strongly for the average cleanliness of the digestive system? Honestly, do you think a man with an enormous beer belly who takes one bowel movement a week just has a little gas problem?
Dude, 2-3 million colonoscopies are performed every year as a regular cancer screening procedure. Many more are scheduled to rule out or diagnose other conditions or diseases or are used as part of a surgery. It's a normal routine thing.
To prepare for a colonoscopy, the patient drinks about a gallon of electroyte solution (sodium bicarbonate, potassium salts, etc.) to completely clean out the bowel so that no fecal material obscures the endoscope's view of the tissue.
It's really very simple to understand. I'm trying to be sympathetic; is this hurting your poor little head?
Anyway, the physician needs to be able to observe clean intestinal tissue during a routine colonoscopy to check for lesions, polyps disease conditions or what have you. That's what doctors are for.
What you have been raving about - old, impacted, fecal 'casings' in otherwise normal unsuspecting patients - are not seen in routine colonsocopies.
Sometimes, such as in the case of diverticulitis, fecal material gets lodged in a diverticulum and these can be painful and can dangerous since they can become infected. People come down with episodic cases of intestinal parasites and other illnesses which usually are heralded by a variety of very unpleasant symptoms for which there is usually treatment.
So take your fucking fecal casings, mucus ropes and tapeworms and shove them up your ass.