what is it called when a dead body vomits its feces?

Question

i work at a hospital as a security guard and this guy died today and he like vomitied his feces. it was horrible i was just wondering if that has ever happened and what it is called , and i am sure the guy was dead! i had to help bring the body to the morgue

Answer 1

if the person had a blocked bowel, from a bowel obstruction, or a dead section of their bowels, from ischemic bowel, they could have a backup of fluids from the bowel into the stomach and this fluid would smell like feces and could be vomited...there is no specific name for this...but have seen living and dead people expell vomitus that has the odor of feces...

Answer 2

It's called "copremesis." But your person was alive when he vomited. I only saw the condition once during my rotating internship many years ago. The patient was a homeless old guy who had an intestinal obstruction. I suctioned him out with a long Miller Abbott tube. Rather nauseating and disgusting, but much worse for the patient. I hope those things have gone the way of the horse and buggy.

Answer 3

I think the security guard was mistaking the incident with a South Park episode.

Answer 4

What you saw was the decedent's gastric contents or vomitous liquid. It may happen in cases such as GI (gastrointestinal) bleeding or if the decedent died from choking on food, trauma may have occured in which medical personnel had to insert an endotracheal tube for the purpose of sustaining life - these are a few reasons the gastric contents may be expelled from the mouth.

Answer 5

He did not vomit his feces. That is physically impossible. After death when liquids are expelled from their mouths it is called purge. It may vary in color, odor and consistency, but it obviously was not feces.

Answer 6

Actually. All the above answers are wrong. There is a technical term for what happened.

It's called: Post-mortum Potty Mouth

Answer 7

it is called totally awesome.

Answer 8

that's just gross..