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Originally Posted by lane912
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wife asks me a medical question that was going around work today-
nurse asked what to do for a rectal prolapse? Doctor instructed the nurse to pour sugar on it and push it in. I understand pushing it back in, I don't know what the sugar was for?
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I'll skip the Howard Johnson's prologue, but according to Wiki:
"Prolapse literally means "to fall out of place‚" from the Latin prolabi meaning "to fall out." In medicine, prolapse is a condition where organs, such as the uterus, fall down or slip out of place. It is used for organs protruding through the vagina or the rectum or for the misalignment of the valves of the heart. A spinal disc herniation is also sometimes called "disc prolapse."
As for the application of sugar ........ ??? I'm trying to visualize positioning the body.
Sherwood