Qadgop or others in the know, would the percentage of bacteria in feces be significantly lower for someone who was taking antibiotics? Dair I mention bukkake? How do participants stay healthy, do they stay healthy?
For someone who’s taking large amounts of powerful antibiotics, you can kill off most, if not all of the normal flora living in your gut.
I am a lab tech in a hospital lab. There have been occasions when I have been trying to culture a stool sample from someone who is on big doses of antibiotics and nothing would grow. The only conculsion I can reach by this is that either all the bacteria are dead, or the presence of that much antibiotics is inhibiting their growth. In any case, killing off all of your GI flora can lead to other comlications when you STOP taking the antibiotics and some other type of bacteria not normally found as normal flora starts proliferating. You can also get nasty, nasty diarrhea as your lower GI relies on this GI flora to provide some of the nutrients from the food you eat.
Don’t mess with your GI flora. Or any of your flora. Antibacterial soap pisses me off because it’s unnescessary. We’ve got some bacteria on our skin that is supposed to be there. Killing it serves no purpose and can actually lead to infection and/or anitbiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria.
Geez, and Unca Cecil thought that picking your nose and cracking your knuckles were annoying…
I don’t know the answer to the question; I just thought that given my user name, I should be posting in this one. Carry on.
Nancy Reagan would have had a successful campaign with that slogan here round the Spanish speaking countries. 
I realize that this has nohing to do with ingestion of fecal matter…but…what about marsupials?
They aren’t receiving all the nutrients so they vomit their meals up and eat what they previously regurgitated.
I have a new question to pose.Why do animals eat their digestive material when they could eat their orally projected meal? I am almost positive that vomit tastes better than that of what has alreay been digested.
I realize that this has nohing to do with ingestion of fecal matter…but…what about marsupials?
They aren’t receiving all the nutrients so they vomit their meals up and eat what they previously regurgitated.
I have a new question to pose.Why do animals eat their digestive material when they could eat their orally projected meal? I am almost positive that vomit tastes better than that of what has alreay been digested.
Human babies have been seen eating their own excrements.
And gorillas do it, apparently benefiting from it (explained in a TV documentary)
I love that this comes from someone named “ParentalAdvisory.”
I’m shocked, shocked, that this thread has gotten to 50 posts and no one has mentioned John Waters’ Pink Flamingos. For any poor souls who haven’t seen this classic of cinema, the last shot of the film features 300-pound transvestite Divine eating a handful of real dogshit that has just visibly emerged from a real dog.
I haven’t heard what happened to Divine afterward, but according to the IMDb Trivia page for the film, " The dog feces in the infamous final scene are [sic] real. According to director John Waters, the dog was fed steak for three days beforehand."
(No, I don’t know what the significance of that last part is.)
Not sure if this counts, but a few of my predecessors who were around during The War were forced to strain the corn kernels out of their feces to reconsume them (the kernels). Granted, they were starving.
It’s enough to make you an instant pacifist.
Oops, forgot to mention:
They all survived, or were killed by something unrelated.
Accounts of the Confederate Prisoner-of-War Camp at Andersonville, where thousands of Union prisoners starved to death (including my great-great-grandfather), mention that some prisoners resorted to eating the undigested corn kernels deposited in the latrine by others.
Ya know, I was quite happy in my little world, where the idea of puking feces out of one’s nose was something that one never had to think about. The image that this little gem has conjured up is going to take a loooong to time to forget.
Thanks, QtM…Thanks a lot.
Behold - The Power of Poop. That these folks were getting sick just by being near feces, and not eating it, tells me enough.
I remember being disturbed to read that shit-eating connoisseurs compare the taste to that of a ripe Camembert.
I was going to link to a website which elaborated further on the gustatory qualities of the humble turd, but… ah… instead, I shall leave interested dopers to find it themselves.
You’re welcome!
Quoth commasense:
The sic is unnecessary there. “Feces” is technically plural, so it’s perfectly correct to say “the feces are”. Like “data” and “media”, it’s perhaps a bit quaint to treat it as gramattically plural, but it’s certainly not incorrect.
As for the steak, I presume that would somehow improve the flavour, but I’m not going to volunteer to find out.
Ummmm, part of me is saying EWWWWWWWWWW!!! and part of me is seriously wondering WHAT kind of fuck would be on a site raving about the taste of feces…I can almost hear them now, sort of like a wine site “Ah yes, a hint of sulfur with a delicate sprinkling of e.coli…”
My assumption when I read that is that typical dog food (especially the canned kind) is pretty disgusting by itself. I guess when it comes down to it, I’d rather eat steak that had passed through a dog than canned dog food that had passed through a dog. I’ll do that right after I drink me some civet coffee.