Upvote!
  • Communities
  • Create Post
  • Create Community
  • heart
    Support Lemmy
  • search
    Search
  • Login
  • Sign Up
Prontomomo@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment

arstechnica.com

external-link
message-square
19
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • nottheonion@lemmy.world
124
external-link

“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment

arstechnica.com

Prontomomo@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
message-square
19
fedilink
  • cross-posted to:
  • nottheonion@lemmy.world
Ig Nobel-winning research could one day be used to treat people with blocked airways or clogged lungs.
alert-triangle
You must log in or # to comment.
  • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    24
    ·
    3 days ago

    ok, so it’s not really breathing through the butt, rather it’s actually an oxygenated enema. as weird as it sounds, I wonder if this would help people who get sick with things like COVID and for whom respirators are no longer working.

    • jj4211@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      2 days ago

      If only they had made this research before they made the Abyss, that could have been a more interesting concept…

    • zout@fedia.io
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      12
      ·
      3 days ago

      As previously reported, this is perhaps one of the more unusual research developments to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated shortages of ventilators and artificial lungs to assist patients’ breathing and prevent respiratory failure.

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexus
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        5
        ·
        edit-2
        3 days ago

        I know the article mentions that, but it hasn’t actually been used to attempt to save the life of any human, with any condition. While it’s promising so far, controlled experiments in a lab are not the same as practical use in a real medical emergency.

        Hence why I wonder if it will work.

        • AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          3 days ago

          It’s still fairly new research. I think the authors recently won an Ignoble prize for it

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.social
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      5
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      Also maybe helpful for people with traumatic chest injuries that make it difficult, painful, or internally harmful to breathe normally.

  • sramder@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    25
    ·
    3 days ago

    Boofing O2 😏

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    9
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    Up there with poop transplants

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      3 days ago

      deleted by creator

  • datavoid@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    3 days ago

    Help he’s dying, someone give him mouth to ass!

  • aarch0x40@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    10
    ·
    3 days ago

    Never thought I’d see the day where the term “butt breath” wasn’t an insult

  • jj4211@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    edit-2
    3 days ago

    Butt breathing, third form…

    When will they cover this in Demon Slayer?

  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    7
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    3 days ago

    I can’t wait for lungs to become a premium feature! Oh boy! Isn’t that great?

    Spread your buttcheeks everyone! Let that smog in!

  • xc2215x@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    3 days ago

    Very strange thing to learn.

  • 20cello@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    4
    ·
    3 days ago

    What if one has to fart

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      3 days ago

      It reverses course and becomes the most foul burp you’ve ever had

      • foggy@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        3 days ago

        Usually only occurs in young children, but, you can be so constipated that you vomit feces.

        Sorry for ruining your day.

        • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          7
          ·
          edit-2
          3 days ago

          I’m a nurse homie. I’m very aware of a lot of the gross things bodies are capable of

          ETA: feces smelling burps are a sign of an intestinal blockage, we really appreciate you sharing that with us early in the hospital before your bowels perforate

        • LowtierComputer@lemmy.world
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          3 days ago

          I was working in a hospital once when a guy with a severe internal gastric bleed threw up feces and ‘coffee ground emesis’

          Very gross.

  • Peer@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    3 days ago

    Reminds me of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_smoke_enema

Not The Onion@lemmy.world

nottheonion@lemmy.world

Subscribe from Remote Instance

Create a post
You are not logged in. However you can subscribe from another Fediverse account, for example Lemmy or Mastodon. To do this, paste the following into the search field of your instance: !nottheonion@lemmy.world

Welcome

We’re not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!

The Rules

Posts must be:

  1. Links to news stories from…
  2. …credible sources, with…
  3. …their original headlines, that…
  4. …would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”

Please also avoid duplicates.

Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.

And that’s basically it!

Visibility: Public
globe

This community can be federated to other instances and be posted/commented in by their users.

  • 1.23K users / day
  • 4.68K users / week
  • 8.87K users / month
  • 18.4K users / 6 months
  • 1 local subscriber
  • 18.5K subscribers
  • 2.27K Posts
  • 85.4K Comments
  • Modlog
  • mods:
  • kescusay@lemmy.world
  • BE: 0.19.6
  • Modlog
  • Instances
  • Docs
  • Code
  • join-lemmy.org