Well I've heard of people who talk through their arse

[fygjam]

Pigs can breathe oxygen via their rectum, so humans probably can too

 

Piping an oxygen-rich liquid through the anus could be a life-saver. A new treatment for
failing lungs that involves such a process has been successfully tested in pigs.

People with low blood oxygen levels may be treated in intensive care by being put on a
ventilator, which blows air into their lungs. But this usually requires sedation and can injure
delicate lung tissue. “It can be really damaging,” says Takanori Takebe at the Tokyo Medical
and Dental University.

Takebe wondered if people could absorb oxygen through their intestines, which happens in
some freshwater fish. In mammals, the rectum is lined with a thin membrane that allows
absorption of certain compounds into the bloodstream, and doctors already exploit this by
giving some medicines as suppositories.

Takebe’s team tested the idea on pigs by giving them enemas of a type of fluid called a
perfluorocarbon, which can hold high levels of oxygen. Such fluids have been investigated as
a way of breathing liquid, and are already used to help protect the lungs of premature babies,
so are likely to be non-toxic when used in this novel way, says Takebe.

The researchers anaesthetised four pigs and put them on a ventilator that gave them a lower
breathing rate than normal, so their blood oxygen levels fell. When they gave two of the pigs
enemas of the oxygenated fluid, replaced once an hour, their blood oxygen levels rose
significantly after each infusion. The same effect happened when the fluid was delivered by a
tube surgically inserted into the rectums of the other two pigs.

If there is a similar-sized effect in people, it would be enough to provide a medical benefit,
says Takebe. He thinks the approach could be especially useful in low-income countries that
have fewer intensive care facilities. “Ventilators are super-expensive and need a number of
medical staff to manage,” he says. “This is just a simple enema.”

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2277532-pigs-can-breathe-oxygen-via-their-rectum-so-humans-probably-can-too/

 

[Butch]

Well, I'll be buggered.

[fygjam]

1 hour ago, Butch said:

Well, I'll be buggered.

Just don't suffocate.

 

[Lirchenfeld]

So that is why drowned people sometimes float with their arse up.... it's a last attempt to breathe... 🙃

[Zeb]

As they say - Pigs Arse ?

[Painter]

Imagine the flatulence afterwards...

[fygjam]

44 minutes ago, Painter said:

Imagine the flatulence afterwards...

Imagine lighting it.

 

[forcebwithu]

37 minutes ago, fygjam said:

Imagine lighting it.

 

[gs joe]

I’ve heard pigs fart before