“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/10/butt-breathing-might-soon-be-a-real-medical-treatment/

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sramder@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 308d

Boofing O2 😏

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 26 pts · 308d (5 replies)
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zout@fedia.io · 13 pts · 307d (2 replies)

As previously reported, this is perhaps one of the more unusual research developments to come out of the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated shortages of ventilators and artificial lungs to assist patients’ breathing and prevent respiratory failure.

_cryptagion@anarchist.nexus · 6 pts · 307d (1 reply)
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AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 307d

It's still fairly new research. I think the authors recently won an Ignoble prize for it

KoboldCoterie@pawb.social · 4 pts · 308d

Also maybe helpful for people with traumatic chest injuries that make it difficult, painful, or internally harmful to breathe normally.

jj4211@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 306d

If only they had made this research before they made the Abyss, that could have been a more interesting concept..

aarch0x40@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 308d

Never thought I'd see the day where the term "butt breath" wasn't an insult

prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 307d (1 reply)

Up there with poop transplants

YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 307d
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datavoid@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 307d

Help he's dying, someone give him mouth to ass!

WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 308d

I can't wait for lungs to become a premium feature! Oh boy! Isn't that great?

Spread your buttcheeks everyone! Let that smog in!

jj4211@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 307d

Butt breathing, third form....

When will they cover this in Demon Slayer?

20cello@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 307d (4 replies)

What if one has to fart

Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 307d (3 replies)

It reverses course and becomes the most foul burp you've ever had

foggy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 307d (2 replies)

Usually only occurs in young children, but, you can be so constipated that you vomit feces.

Sorry for ruining your day.

Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 307d

I'm a nurse homie. I'm very aware of a lot of the gross things bodies are capable of

ETA: feces smelling burps are a sign of an intestinal blockage, we really appreciate you sharing that with us early in the hospital before your bowels perforate

LowtierComputer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 307d

I was working in a hospital once when a guy with a severe internal gastric bleed threw up feces and 'coffee ground emesis'

Very gross.

Peer@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 307d
xc2215x@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 307d

Very strange thing to learn.