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...it dumps all sorts of bacteria into a nominally sterile area. I hope you were specifically referring to bowel perforations, because normal, uncomplicated c
by enfield 13y ago
...it dumps all sorts of bacteria into a nominally sterile area.
I hope you were specifically referring to bowel perforations, because normal, uncomplicated colonoscopies are not conducted in a "nominally sterile area."
Per Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_intestine#Bacterial_flora http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Large_intestine#Bacterial_flora
"The large intestine houses over 700 species of bacteria that perform a variety of functions."
I think you did mean "a bowel perforation dumps", when you said "it dumps", but it felt a little vague to me.
- hga 13y agoUntil I switched to talking about the hospital administrators my comment was entirely focused on bowel perforations. And, yeah, I do know the gut has lots 'o bacteria. The first piece of real science I did was in 1977 using E. Coli, and my lab used the "tame" K-12 strain and pipetted with our mouths. On the off chance you screwed up, we just spit it out and washed our mouths out a bit (this horrified a biologist friend I mentioned it to in the late '80s, but our PI was a microbiologist and knew his stuff). All the way to my nowadays taking a probiotic with 5 beneficial bacteria, which along with a few other things seems to keep my gut pretty happy.