A recent visit to an academic library turned up an accidental discovery: a journal article titled "Listening to Bowel Sounds: An evidence-based practice project." The subtitle: "Nurses find that a traditional practice isn't the best indicator of returning gastrointestinal motility in patients who've undergone abdominal surgery."
This article was found discarded next to the public printer. It can be found the American Journal of Nursing (2005) Vol. 105, No. 12.
At the end of the article was a 15-part multiple choice test. Question Six said:
"The key bowel-related parameter of postoperative recovery of GI motility is:
A) coordinated contractions of the stomach;
B) passage of flatus;
C) coordinated contractions of the colon;
D) passage of stool
Friday, April 4, 2008
Poop school?
A story on the CNN website discussed ways to help children, saying some are in a "power struggle" with their parents over pooping.
"Sarah Teres enrolled Molly in the Toilet Training School at Children's Hospital Boston. At age 2½ "...she wouldn't poop. She would hold it for days," Teres admitted.
"By the time the children come in with their families, it has become a power struggle," explained Dr. Alison Schonwald, a pediatrician who supervises the "poop school," as it's affectionately called by staffers. "The kids kind of dig in their heels and put a line in the sand."
"For some kids, the toilet training process can take more than a year, or longer.
"The six-week program at Children's Hospital is one of a handful around the country. Kimberly Dunn, a pediatric nurse practitioner, has worked with some of the 450 young graduates over the years."
Dunn uses books, music and art to help the students overcome their fear of using the toilet.
"Sarah Teres enrolled Molly in the Toilet Training School at Children's Hospital Boston. At age 2½ "...she wouldn't poop. She would hold it for days," Teres admitted.
"By the time the children come in with their families, it has become a power struggle," explained Dr. Alison Schonwald, a pediatrician who supervises the "poop school," as it's affectionately called by staffers. "The kids kind of dig in their heels and put a line in the sand."
"For some kids, the toilet training process can take more than a year, or longer.
"The six-week program at Children's Hospital is one of a handful around the country. Kimberly Dunn, a pediatric nurse practitioner, has worked with some of the 450 young graduates over the years."
Dunn uses books, music and art to help the students overcome their fear of using the toilet.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
A Surprise in the Cave
Did you know that scientists have a fancy word for fossilized poop? It's "coprolite." That sounds better than "petrified poop." (Or not)
"We found a little pit in the bottom of a cave," related Dennis Jenkins from the University of Oregon, whose team excavated the Paisley Caves in 2002 and 2003.
"It was full of camel, horse and mountain sheep bones, and in there we found a human coprolite."
'Convincing evidence'
This and 13 other coprolites - fossilised faeces - proved the star attraction, because they contained tiny quantities of human mitochondrial DNA - genetic material found outside the nuclei of cells which is passed down from each mother to her children.
Several kinds of genetic analysis performed at several different laboratories confirmed that the DNA was human, and suggested the ancient cave residents were closely related to ethnic groups indigenous to Siberia and East Asia.
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This blog was created by two cousins that like to exchange funny/interesting poop stories. It's not for weirdo poop fet:sh people... (Ewww... that's just sick.) It's for people who think poop is funny!
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