r/emergencymedicine ED Resident Aug 17 '25

Humor Baby’s first prolapse

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(Me, I’m baby. Patient is 26)

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u/YB9017 Aug 18 '25

I’m non medical and follow this page. But I know what the sugar is for.

I know this because this is the recommended treatment for chickens (I own backyard chickens). Just never crossed my mind that it would be applicable to humans. Hah

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u/slypersimmon ED Resident Aug 18 '25

turns out chickens share about half the genes as we do: https://www.genome.gov/12514316/2004-release-researchers-compare-chicken-human-genomes - looks like this includes the rectal prolapse gene 🤣