Why is ingesting fecal matter dangerous even though its just stuff from your body?
In: Biology
I’d like to add to the other answers here that your own poop is much less dangerous than other people’s poop. I definitely don’t recommend eating anyone’s feces, but your own has bacteria that you already have in your gut, whereas ingesting (other people’s) fecal bacteria is one of the most effective ways to get many diseases from them. That’s how cholera and hepatitis A spread, for example. You can’t give these diseases to yourself.
But still, like other people have said, your poop is made of stuff that your body wants to get rid of, so at best, eating it is making your body go through the same process again. At worst, it can poison you, because you’re getting too much waste material in you at once.
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