Comment on If you have diarrhea and you hold it in will your body retain some of the water?
TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world 3 weeks agoYou 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.