Just got to thinking...
Does anyone know, when the D is really bad, how much of the nutritional value of food you are still actually absorbing? I was trying to reason it out last night....if IBS is mostly the large intestine (is that right?), I think most of the absorption of nutrients happens in the stomach and s. intestine, and the large intestine absorbs the water and vitamins and minerals. (All of that is based on vague rememberances from intro bio and such....my field is molecular bio, so if anyone has any questions about cellular metabolism of nutrients, I've got that for ya, but boy, I can't remember how long it's been since I've studied anything on the human/ organismal level). Does anyone actually know, especially in relation to IBS?
Anyway...I was just wondering. I was stable, and now I'm having a major major, seemingly unending, attack. And in the past, major attack meant in the morning, no matter what I ate when, the worst was always in the morning. Now it's constant D, all day long. I feel like food can't possibly actually be inside me more than half an hour, so I'm worried I'm not getting any nutrition out of it at all. Usually with D, they just say you need water and salts/ electrolytes....but can it ever be so severe you aren't absorbing any (or enough) carbs/ proteins/ etc, either? Sort of like when people try to lose weight with laxatives, I suppose?
Does anyone know if the D from IBS is different, or if that is an actual concern?
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