Yeah, why is that if you wipe to vigorously and get scratches around your butthole, it doesn’t get infected by all the poop ?
Hank Green asked this about anal fissures and had a bunch of doctors replying. From what I remember your immune system is different in different parts of your body and your body is prepared to handle it down there. Unless your immune system gets compromised then it can get infected.
Oh yeah, this is also the case with our eyeballs, right? They have their own little immune system in there.
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That’s scary.
Generally “poop bacteria” such as e-coli do not cause skin infections, they thrive in a different environment. Even infections in the anal region are generally caused by skin bacteria such as Staphylococcus.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science? :)
We have ourselves a pile of proctologists!
This sounds like something George Clooney’s character in O Brother Where Art Thou might say.
Personally, a proverbial pile of proctologists pass as performers called “The Soggy Bottom Boys” perfectly.
Honestly I can hear it
Bum science, specifically…
SHE’S A WITCH!
Beyond skin infections, what happens when they enter your bloodstream? Id figure that’d happen with a broken hemorrhoid, since it’s basically and open wound that poop just sits on all day
Now that is something I’ve never thought about before and also wish I hadn’t read.
Anyway, I googled it, and hemorrhoids are actually not necessarily open wounds, and if they are, at least the blood is flowing outwards which might hinder the bacteria from getting into the blood stream. The bacteria from the asshole doesn’t survive well outside the intestines, so there’s a low risk of them crawling back up into an open wound.
However it does happen, and that could cause blood poisoning, which is potentially lethal if untreated. You’d probably want to treat it though because you’d experience severe fever and other clear signs.
I’ll achieve this knowledge in the “don’t worry about it” folder.
Yeah I’ve since googled it too! The fact that the symptoms are something where it’s obvious there’s something severely wrong and that it’s treatable in hospital reassured me, too. I’ve also realised that it’s similar to toxic shock from a tampon, which I never worry about, but am glad to know is a small possibility. Sorry to worry you/gross you out though!
They do. It’s why you have an immune system. You’re literally being attacked millions of times per day but keep it in check.
Ahem…kept in cheek😆
good one!
The gist of it is thicker skin, stronger immune system presence down there, higher blood flow down there.
Shouldn’t this be in lemmy shitpost?
Those of the shitpost delegation accept that this post is shitty, but do not grant it the title of shitpost.
insert plug for a bidet
Insert corny joke about plugs and bidets in same sentence
Insert butt plug
The skin on your body isn’t uniform; it’s at varying textures and thicknesses in different parts, and its absorbency varies in different parts, as well.
The skin around your anus is very resistant to infection due to its particular mixture of these properties.
So we have thick a holes?
(insert fat joke)
(also insert insertion-into-rectum joke)
(also insert rectum-no-dang-near-killed-em joke)
Reads like a strange dialect of lisp.
I just tried to turn my comment into a lisp joke, but realized I don’t really know lisp as well as I used to 35+ years ago, and I’m not going to reteach it to myself for the sake of a joke. Sorry. 🤣😂
It can happen. And when it does, it can be horrendously painful and hard to treat.
What are you wiping with???
80 grit
rookie move, you start at 100 and move up to higher numbers until smooth.
Oh my pkcell
I just puckered involuntarily.
He doesn’t know how to use the three shells.
So do you just scoop it out with those shells or what?
Dry paper is abrasive.
You’re not supposed to use regular paper
how come my butthole doesn’t get infected after I get micro-tears
Because my oral hygiene is very good.
Just messaging so I can return and check answers here. I’m curious as well.
Just messaging so I can remember to save comments in the future
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… good point, I forgot about that. Thank you.
Is that toilet paper?
Bidet
too French.
Biden
You can say it however you want. Just let it cleanse you.
superhero whos entire body is a butt. never gets diseases
Dammit, Assy
MCGEE, IN MY OFFICE NOW
Do you wipe with a cheese grater?
I don’t understand how you are scratching you brown eye when you wipe.
1-ply public washroom paper is not far off a cheese grater, so…
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Tell that to my workplace. They have the worst toilet paper in there. I won’t pass on an opportunity to poop on the job, best possible use of my time.
For a while I took my own toilet paper to work it was that bad
works in a literal jail
Of course, the 20 years of trucking before that, has made my butthole very tough.
Wait…
That did not come out right!
Seconded.
Also, a bidet.
Certainly would make getting those blumpkins more pleasant
Im pretty sure they can if deep enough.