# Straining on the toilet is hazardous to your health?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straining-on-the-toilet-is-hazardous-to-your-health/372014>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 9, 2006, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straining-on-the-toilet-is-hazardous-to-your-health/372014 "2006-09-09T00:53:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straining-on-the-toilet-is-hazardous-to-your-health/372014/21 "2006-09-10T15:17:30Z")

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[QUOTE=Chez Guevara]  
Elvis was by no means the first King to die on the toilet.  
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Yeah, but Beetlejuice didn’t call out ‘Yo! George the Second!’ 😉

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**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\
**Post date:** [September 10, 2006, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/straining-on-the-toilet-is-hazardous-to-your-health/372014/22 "2006-09-10T19:18:32Z")

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[QUOTE=gabriela]  
Tell me one from _your_ field. Every field has some.  
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Id10T errors 🙂

KTOH was a fairly commonly used abbreviation we used at my old ambulance company around non medical folk to refer to a patient that died. Stands for “kicked the oxygen habit”

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