– 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

Your rectum connects to your large intestine, which is good at absorbing drugs eg. Your fecies at this point mostly contains (relatively) huge carbohydrates, waste products of your body and bacteria that died in your stomach somewhere else.