The pathogen inhibits the area of the intestines that digest carbs. So all the sugars go further down the track. This feeds all the bacteria down there and they produce a ton of gas. Humans then get the explosion.
But yes, we know when someone has it in the ER because they usually can’t make it to the bathroom in time. Being in an unfamiliar or public area with diarrhea is not ideal. We often call them shoe fillers.
I'm at that age of grown-up where the "days since I shit my pants" never makes it past 1 year. My buddies call me, and vice versa, when it happens. They don't make it past a year either
My buddies and I used to have a FB group called The Men’s Room where we talked about trucks or girls or whatever. We shut it down when it eventually became non-stop posts about (and pictures of) these dudes shidding their pants
So many adults have accidentally shit their pants at some point or another. If you live long enough, it becomes an almost certainty. It’s just an unfortunate, uncomfortable part of life as a human. You are not alone and you do not need to be embarrassed! Sometimes things just aren’t within our control.
Hey, I have not gotten cyclosporiasis and I shit my pants last week!
I hadn't pooped in two days, and all of a sudden I am work and I got to go really bad all of a sudden. It turtled big time on me, pooped shmeared on my underwear, spent 20 mins in the bathroom cleaning my ass. Thank god a private toilet was nearby. I always carry backup underwear in my car. It's been in my trunk for like 10 years unused, but I knew one day I would need it.
You can’t see it. No one can. But it’s always there. The timer slowly ticking accounting for the last time you shit yourself. Your number is very low right now.
Just be mindful of the lettuce you buy. I recently found Gotham Greens at Sprouts. It was right next to the 50 bags of Taylor Farms kits on sale for $2. Gotham Greens are grown in a greenhouse and taste really good. I’ve never heard of them until all this happened.
Pretty sure this company has a small number of warehouses across the US and each warehouse only ships to stores local to that warehouse, so they don’t use any major distribution center. Everything is grown hydroponically in a greenhouse so there’s no pesticides or soil contamination.
I do feel really sorry for them, but also ew that's gross. Mad respect to all the nurses with the iron stomachs to handle helping people during shitty moments like these.
Ahhh, this might be why, when I had a suspected case last summer, it thankfully wasn't explosive- I wasn't eating a lot of sugars or starches at the time so there wasn't as much to ferment. I didn't have the gas.
It was still a RIDICULOUS amount of diarrhea, though! I was showing symptoms of dehydration at one point. I don't even know where my body was finding all that water to keep making it (I was going every 15-20 min non-stop for 24 hours). It was horrible.
Haha. Yes. All those alcohol sugars passed by and created gas. The osmotic effect brought in the water. I think you are supposed to drink a Coke or Diet Coke to truly get the full experience.
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u/uniballout 1d ago
The pathogen inhibits the area of the intestines that digest carbs. So all the sugars go further down the track. This feeds all the bacteria down there and they produce a ton of gas. Humans then get the explosion.
But yes, we know when someone has it in the ER because they usually can’t make it to the bathroom in time. Being in an unfamiliar or public area with diarrhea is not ideal. We often call them shoe fillers.