Yeah, why is that if you wipe to vigorously and get scratches around your butthole, it doesn’t get infected by all the poop ?
Hank Green asked this about anal fissures and had a bunch of doctors replying. From what I remember your immune system is different in different parts of your body and your body is prepared to handle it down there. Unless your immune system gets compromised then it can get infected.
Oh yeah, this is also the case with our eyeballs, right? They have their own little immune system in there.
Eww that could explain how that Doctors Without Borders guy recovered from Ebola but then they found it still living in his eye. https://www.science.org/content/article/ebola-persisted-doctor-s-eye-months
That’s scary.
Generally “poop bacteria” such as e-coli do not cause skin infections, they thrive in a different environment. Even infections in the anal region are generally caused by skin bacteria such as Staphylococcus.
Who are you who are so wise in the ways of science? :)
We have ourselves a pile of proctologists!
This sounds like something George Clooney’s character in O Brother Where Art Thou might say.
Personally, a proverbial pile of proctologists pass as performers called “The Soggy Bottom Boys” perfectly.
Honestly I can hear it
Bum science, specifically…
SHE’S A WITCH!
Beyond skin infections, what happens when they enter your bloodstream? Id figure that’d happen with a broken hemorrhoid, since it’s basically and open wound that poop just sits on all day
The gist of it is thicker skin, stronger immune system presence down there, higher blood flow down there.
The skin on your body isn’t uniform; it’s at varying textures and thicknesses in different parts, and its absorbency varies in different parts, as well.
The skin around your anus is very resistant to infection due to its particular mixture of these properties.
So we have thick a holes?
They do. It’s why you have an immune system. You’re literally being attacked millions of times per day but keep it in check.
Ahem…kept in cheek😆
*insert plug for a bidet>
Insert corny joke about plugs and bidets in same sentence
Insert butt plug
It can happen. And when it does, it can be horrendously painful and hard to treat.
What are you wiping with???
80 grit
Oh my pkcell
rookie move, you start at 100 and move up to higher numbers until smooth.
He doesn’t know how to use the three shells.
So do you just scoop it out with those shells or what?
Dry paper is abrasive.
Just messaging so I can return and check answers here. I’m curious as well.
Just messaging so I can remember to save comments in the future
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Bidet
too French.
You can say it however you want. Just let it cleanse you.
Shouldn’t this be in lemmy shitpost?
Do you wipe with a cheese grater?
I don’t understand how you are scratching you brown eye when you wipe.
1-ply public washroom paper is not far off a cheese grater, so…
Buy better toilet rolls, quilted ultra soft from good brands. Your butthole will thank you.
Tell that to my workplace. They have the worst toilet paper in there. I won’t pass on an opportunity to poop on the job, best possible use of my time.
For a while I took my own toilet paper to work it was that bad
Seconded.
Also, a bidet.
Certainly would make getting those blumpkins more pleasant
:|
People still not using a bidet in 2025… smh
I always forget to bring my bidet with me when I go on a trip!
If you’re joking, you should buy a portable bidet and keep it in your luggage.
I’ve seen exactly one airport bathroom with private sinks, and zero airplanes where I think I can manage that.
And I’m not gonna comment on the incident on the #9 bus.
Haha… Yeah, true, a portable bidet isn’t good for public restrooms, but for a hotel room, they’re great.
Bidet pulled out of the race late 2024. Read the news.
November rolls around: “Is bidet running for president?” trends on search engines
home ownership is a faraway dream for a lot of people, and apartments generally won’t let you install one :(
When the tissue you’re wiping with gets torn, you need to use another one, not continue with the torn one.
Edit: Adding in a /s, in case it was not obvious 🥲
But unless the TP turns red to signal you’re done, how do you know? ;-)
Seriously. Wipe until the brown turns red.
