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17-yo Girl Must Digest Brain Fluid Inside Her Belly to Survive
- gdl 16y agoIt sounds like she needs to just drain the brain fluid somehow - letting it overflow into her stomach was just the most convenient way to do so. Not quite as bizarre as the headline makes it sound. Here's hoping there's an especially reliable one-way valve on that. If I had a tube running between my brain and a vat of hydrochloric acid, I'd be rather paranoid about backflow eating away my soft squishy gray stuff. edit: re-reading that, it's between her brain and her peritoneal cavity, which sounds much less scary.
- benologist 16y agoSummary of http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1316205/Teenage-girl-control-rare-brain-condition-digesting-spinal-fluid.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1316205/Teenage-gi...
- phren0logy 16y agoThe fluid does not enter her stomach, it goes into her peritoneal cavity. The peritoneal cavity is defined by the lining that surrounds your abdominal organs. On one hand, this is totally standard, and these get installed every day. It's still amazing, but not clear to me why this was written up in Gizmodo.