Poop Hips

wherein colons get to do what they are meant to do –but too long and too much. Colons are not about nutrition (that train left the train tracks long before the colon).The colon is about WATER RETENTION- not wasting water. It dehydrates the stuff coming through. If that stuff lingers too long, it becomes bricks. Some flow will, as pressure builds, leak around the brick wall that forms giving an illusion of bowel flow. Stool may even be very fluid. A skinny kid with a protruding belly is trouble. What can’t go this way ===> then goes <=== that way…. Call in a plumber! General surgeon is called to cure the leaky esophageal valve problem by making a tight loop around the esophagus right at that diaphragm area. A “plication is born”. Feeding tricks evolve but the lower gut distends more & more. We have, what in any other clinical setting would be called intestinal obstruction and that would be handled accordingly. However, “parallel distended loops of bowel” seen right there as you draw stupid angles on the x-rays of hip bones to impress what is obvious about those hips – parallel loops of intestine go unmentioned. “They all have that.”