******After eating at a buffet or some gathering and eating different foods, sometimes I am in need of a bathroom 10 minutes later. Sometimes as I am eating I’ll get the familiar twinge that let’s me know I’m going to need a bathroom shortly. I don’t see how it can actually be old food I’m really eliminating since I have daily bowel movements, sometimes 3 p/day. How can food go from mouth to being eliminated w/in a 10 minute period?? It’s like it bypasses the stomach altogether and goes directly to the “poop chute”.
Accelerated peristalsis. For some reason the body wants to be rid of the food asap, but not by vomiting. It’s one 'feature’of IBS, which is annoying as nobody really knows what IBS is. Happens to me too, if I eat a green apple. Yum yum apple, ooh gut feels weird, run to the bathroom, apple sauce. I don’t eat green apples any more.
It’s not the actual food from the buffet leaving your system. It takes hours for food to dissolve in the stomach and intestines. In 10 minutes it would look much like the food you ate, but chewed. People that suffer from IBS and other intestinal aliments, normally the intestine will over ‘vibrate’ or muscle spasm and push earlier eaten food out. This is often brought on by ingesting certain types of food.
Sometimes it is also the fat content of the food or the sugars present that cause the dumping, if your gallbladder is going bad, or it has been removed it can happen [from what people posting here have said] or if there are a fair amount of alcohol sugars like maltitol and sorbitol in the foods. Diabetic ‘candy’ is notorious for this effect.
[and it can also be a food sensitivity, I react like that to tropical/palm/coconut in foods, and also canola oil.]
are you saying it could be sign of a failing gallbladder?
or am I reading your post wrong?
Can it be definitely ruled out? Are you in the 5f group [um, female, fourties, fertile, fat and flatulant or something like that] has there been a history of gallbladder issues in your family?
Just saying that sometimes pretty immediate dumping can be caused by a gallbladder going rogue, or the lack of a gallbladder. I would hazard a guess it is because the bile released helps metabolize dietary fat and apparently uneffected fat in the intestines sort of greases its way through [look at the WOW chips and their nondigestible fat :eek: from a few years ago.]
It is old food that has spent hours and hours slowly moving through your intestines. Since it takes anywhere from 10 to 36 hours for food to move through your system and you eat every four hours or so you are guaranteed to have old food inside you always.
Some people may come into the thread waving their hands and talking about rare conditions like dumping syndrome. (If you search I’m sure you’ll find at least a dozen threads identical to this one that I’ve posted gastrocolic reflex in.) Those come with a plethora of other nasty symptoms than merely the need to defecate. If you have that many severe symptoms you’d be at a doctor already, not asking us.
There is another, older thread (can’t find at the moment) that disputes your claim. Several investigative Dopers have gone so far as to document their eating habits to a point where they can time ingestion to evacuation in as little as twenty minutes. IIRC, one Doper didn’t eat broccoli for a week. However, within about thirty minutes of eating broccoli, there it was in the bottom of the toilet bowl. Other Dopers offered similar results in that thread.
Yes, I specifically dispute that it’s always old food leaving the system. I am aware of the post-food response that stimulates defecation, but “It takes hours for food to dissolve in the stomach and intestines” assumes a normally-functioning gut in the first place. As an IBS sufferer, my gut moves similarly to the OP’s and without going into too much detail, I always know which meal is coming out when.
“In 10 minutes it would look much like the food you ate, but chewed.” - for me, it can do. In the case above of the apple, it was pure chewed apple that came out, but I hadn’t eaten another apple for weeks prior to that.
I guess one can’t assume that’s what’s happening to the OP, but it could be.
I was recently diagnosed with celiacs disease and acute gastritis. I can refute all claims that food can not travel through from mouth to toilet in 10 minutes. It happens to me daily. I know what I’ve eaten just prior and it is chewed up, undigested pass through. so, coming from “experience”, it happens. A colonoscopy and/or endoscopy will help your doctors with a proper diagnosis.