• Question: When people are in a coma, do they still excrete?

    Asked by penguin123 to Emma, Jimmy, Janet, Niall, Simon on 15 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Emma Ashley

      Emma Ashley answered on 15 Mar 2013:

      Yes, you still excrete urine and this is collected in a catheter bag. If a special liquid diet is injected into your vein (total parental nutrition) then I don’t think your bowels work and you don’t need to poo. If you’re receiving food through a tube into the stomach then you can excrete faeces this is collected into a stoma bag.

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