– Why is it if someone puts drugs in their rectum it quickly enters their bloodstream, but people have feces in the same area all the time and it doesn’t go into their blood and make them sick?

Question

– Why is it if someone puts drugs in their rectum it quickly enters their bloodstream, but people have feces in the same area all the time and it doesn’t go into their blood and make them sick?

In: Biology

Answer 1

Because the stuff in your poop is already the stuff that your body can’t absorb. That’s why it’s waste in the first place. Everything else that was absorbable like water and nutrients was already absorbed in your intestines.