Comment on If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water?
filcuk@lemmy.zip 1 week agoIf you have diarrhoea, it may have been caused by bad food, something you may not want to be absorbing, which may be why the body is trying to purge it ASAP.
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You wouldn’t be absorbing “bad food”. The body has diarrhea because it is unable to absorb water in the colon. It’s unable to absorb water in the case of food poisoning because the bacteria that grew in the food is creating a protein that blocks the water absorption receptors in the colon lining.