Is it possible to die from pooping?

Yes, but the probability is very small. The person would need to have some previous problems. First, a history of stroke or heart failure. Then a very lazy intestine, the kind that generates dry feces. Then, yes, the fatal scenario would be ready. Due to overexertion in the elimination of poop, a large volume of blood would concentrate in the abdomen, disturbing the irrigation of the heart or brain.

“Something similar can happen to someone who is going to lift a lot of weight: the blood would concentrate in the chest area and a stroke would occur, for example”, he says. Paulo Olzon, professor of internal medicine at the Federal University of São Paulo. In healthy people, however, the force to evacuate (even in a constipation, for example) would not be brutal enough to kill.

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