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Study to determine typical transit time for a swallowed Lego figurine head
- atomical 8y agoThe FART score. Good one guys.
- deleted 8y ago[deleted]
- duskwuff 8y agoAnd the "Stool Hardness And Transit" score. I get the sense the researchers were having a bit of a giggle.
- owyn 8y agoFine work! This needs to be nominated for an Ig Nobel prize!
- whoopdedo 8y agoI can only assume this was the intent of the authors.
- yesenadam 8y agoAbstract Aim Children frequently ingest coins (generally with minimal reported side effects); however, the ingestion of other items has been subject to less academic study. Parental concern regarding ingestion applies across a range of materials. In this study, we aimed to determine typical transit times for another commonly swallowed object: a Lego figurine head. Methods Six paediatric health‐care professionals were recruited to swallow a Lego head. Previous gastrointestinal surgery, inability to ingest foreign objects and aversion to searching through faecal matter were all exclusion criteria. Pre‐ingestion bowel habit was standardised by the Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score. Participants ingested a Lego head, and the time taken for the object to be found in the participants stool was recorded. The primary outcome was the Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score. Results The FART score averaged 1.71 days. There was some evidence that females may be more accomplished at searching through their stools than males, but this could not be statistically validated. Conclusions A toy object quickly passes through adult subjects with no complications. This will reassure parents, and the authors advocate that no parent should be expected to search through their child's faeces to prove object retrieval.
- itronitron 8y ago>> aversion to searching through faecal matter I wonder if they also considered stepping on fecal matter in order to identify the LEGO piece.
- tfmatt 8y agoIf an aversion stopped them then this is just painful.
- pmiller2 8y agoI hope I’m not the only one who checked to see if this was published on April 1.
- waterhouse 8y agoIndeed. > Stool Hardness and Transit (SHAT) score Hmm, that could be a joke or could be a coincidence... > Found and Retrieved Time (FART) score Ok, that seems like more than a coincidence. The authors are clearly at least having fun with it.
- eganist 8y ago> Ok, that seems like more than a coincidence hmmm
- ThrowMeDown01 8y agoThen you are going to like this short study: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121900/
- booleandilemma 8y agoThere was some evidence that females may be more accomplished at searching through their stools than males... Something for the feminists to be happy about.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't do this here.
- chrisbennet 8y agoWhen I read the title to a buddy he said: "Asking for a friend."
- wild_preference 8y agoI've done this experiment every time I've eaten beets.
- rmbeard 8y agoThis must be a candidate for an igNobel.