Pediatricians actually ate pieces of lego and pooped them out all in the name of science
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Ahhh science what will they come up with next.
A small group of pediatricians got together to solve the age old question of - how long
does it take to poop out lego pieces.
The answer is on average it takes 1.71 days to poop out those little yellow lego heads.
For the sake of science six pediatricians all volunteered to consume a lego head and
search through their poop to find the evidence.
Before undergoing this serious scientific endeavour the healthcare professionals had
to have not had gastrointestinal surgery and has to be perfectly fine with going through
their own feces.
The final results were published in the Journal of Paediatrics and Child Health in an article
they titled - Everything is awesome - Dont forget the lego.
Shoutout to the lego movie fans who had a good laugh at that title like me.
It gets better though and this is the kind of funny news you just cant write.
The volunteers were monitored for their pre-ingestion bowel habits to account for any differences.
The standardized test is called - The Stool Hardness and Transit or the SHAT score.
Wait.. wait..
It gets better - The time in which it takes for the lego piece to travel from the mouth
to the toilet bowl is called The Found and Retrieved Time also known as the FART score.
Ahhh and just like that I feel like a kid again.
Poop jokes are always funny.
Like I said it takes approximately 1.71 days for the lego piece to leave the body and a
FART score that falls between 1.14 and 3.04 days.
Unfortunately for one of the male volunteers he never found the lego head he consumed.
Which lead the researchers to come to the conclusion and I quote - Females may be more
accomplished at searching through their stools than males.
Although this test seems crazy, hilarious and whatever else you want to think about
it, the study was done with a purpose.
The reasoning for this scientific study is to put the minds of parents at ease when their
child decides dinner just wasnt enough for them.
Now with this study they can be sure that consuming a lego piece wont have nasty health
complications for their child.
The authors of the study also wrote something worth keeping in mind though.
They said - It is possible that childhood bowel transit time is fundamentally different
from adult, but there is little evidence to support this, and if anything, it is likely
that objects would pass faster in a more immature gut.
This will be of use to anxious parents who may worry that transit times may be prolonged
and potentially painful for their children.
The authors also urged parents that if a child does eat something like this and it doesnt
show up in the feces to not go looking for it.
Also I urge you as funny and important this study is, we do not give you the greenlight
to start eating lego pieces.
If an experienced PhD couldnt find the piece in their own stool, you should not expect
that you could.
With that I want to leave a question for you, do you think this study is important or was
it a waste of time Now lets move on to some featured comments
from the video titled - Youll never use a mcdonalds touch screen again after hearing
this TheSage 2020 says - Theres fecal matter everywhere
no big deal from your phones to your toothbrush﻿ -Gross, but also true.
I need to sanitize my body now Mr. walrus says - Well that's a crappy situation﻿
-Haaaaaaaaa love a good pun J-hope Hobi says - Well good bye McDonald’s
and hello Burger King﻿ -Or or and bare with me here, get grass-fed
beef from a local butcher and make homemade burgers.
Itll taste better, it will be cheaper in the long run and youll be supporting local businesses.
Plus its just better meat Tanzanite The One says - GROSS!
OMG POTATO KING!
-Hey I feel the same way.
Poop on McDonalds touch screens is gross The De Sean Allen says - real talk who really
goes inside a fast food restaurant its drive thru only over here.﻿
-This man right here is a genius.
Why did we ever leave the drive-thru.
I guess if you live in a city its hard to find them, but just talk to the cashier.
They work at McDonalds, im sure as gross as you think your order is, theyve seen worse.
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