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intense bladder pains mid-flight which turned out to be the result of downing a huge quantity of beer before the flight and being unable to urinate wa
by citricsquid 14y ago
intense bladder pains mid-flight which turned out to be
the result of downing a huge quantity of beer before the
flight and being unable to urinate
was that due to the altitude or something else?
- ilamont 14y agoThe stricken passenger had the option of using the restroom, but for unknown reasons could not urinate. They stretched him out on a row of seats which seemed to help the pain, but from what I recall was unable to go until they reached the destination airport. The total trip time was about three hours.
- niels_olson 14y agoBeyond a certain capacity the bladder is no longer contractile and must be catheterized to urinate. Happens every day in the OR or PACU.
- maaku 14y agoReally? What happened before modern medicine? I'm not being snarky: I believe you.. but a burst bladder would be lethal without access to modern medical knowledge. That seems like a epic fail by evolution.
- niels_olson 14y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tycho_Brahe#Death
- bosch 14y agoNow I have something to be paranoid about and will be going the bathroom as much as possible.
- niels_olson 14y agoAlcohol is a double-whammy because it induces a degree of transient paresis, allowing the inebriated to hold it longer than they should. Just don't fight the urge and you'll be fine.
- jkbyc 14y agoYou should do that in any case. Putting it off is not good for your prostate.
- jQueryIsAwesome 14y agoThere are lots of epic fails by evolution, is more about quantity than quality so to speak.
- vacri 14y agoAn extreme outlier is hardly an 'epic fail'.
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- jeffdavis 14y agoBefore modern life, we had plenty of opportunity to urinate well before it became a serious problem. If we were intelligently designed, after all, I think God would call holding it for hours a "user error" and mark it "won't fix".
- jacquesm 14y agoYou died. A burst bladder is quite fatal.
- trustfundbaby 14y agowow! I learned something today. So just to confirm, you're saying that if (for example) I hold my pee for whatever reason, after a certain point, I might not be able to pee unless they catheterize my bladder?
- tcgv 14y ago"but for unknown reasons could not urinate" Maybe that guy suffered from the Shy bladder syndrome [1]. [1] http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Shy+bladder+syndrome http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Shy+bladder+...
- lambda 14y agoHuh. According to the article that you linked to about the coat hanger, brandy, and rubber tube: 'The aircraft's medical kit is "quite well-equipped for having babies and people who develop urinary blockages..."'. In fact, it sounds like the tube they used to drain the lung was a catheter intended for urinary blockage. I wonder why they couldn't use such a catheter for this guy; did that kit not have one?
- JshWright 14y agoIf it progressed to the point of a true medical emergency, I suspect the kit at least had the equipment necessary for a 'quick and dirty' suprapubic aspiration of the bladder (stick a longish needle in from the front, and use a syringe to pull fluid out). Generally speaking, this is done with an ultrasound, but in a pinch, you could likely just palpate the bladder.