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“Butt breathing” might soon be a real medical treatment (arstechnica.com)

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[–] _cryptagion@anarchist.nexus 25 points 4 days ago (3 children)

ok, so it's not really breathing through the butt, rather it's actually an oxygenated enema. as weird as it sounds, I wonder if this would help people who get sick with things like COVID and for whom respirators are no longer working.

[–] zout@fedia.io 12 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I know the article mentions that, but it hasn’t actually been used to attempt to save the life of any human, with any condition. While it’s promising so far, controlled experiments in a lab are not the same as practical use in a real medical emergency.

Hence why I wonder if it will work.

[–] AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 4 points 3 days ago

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

[–] jj4211@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

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

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 4 points 4 days ago

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