Have you had a cold and a large amount of mucous in your throat? It will not budge. If you manage to spit some out, you will find it is grey in colour. Within a week, it starts to move and the colour is yellow. That is because the mucous has decomposed and lost its ability to stick.
Our digestive system is lined with a mucosal layer that is smooth and slippery. Feel the inside lining of your mouth. But the mucous can still stick on the oesophageal pipe.
The mucosal layer is in the colon too. If we eat mainly fruit and vegetables, the waste material can never stick to our colon wall.
But a large amount of half cooked meat will remain in the colon, particularly in the diverticular bubbles. The mucosal layer will break down and provide a surface for the meat to stick.
Decomposing meat will remain like a blob of mucous stuck on the colon wall. An ongoing diet of meat will cause problems.
If the piece is large it may remain for weeks, will rot and cause the colon wall to rot. Have you ever had an infection on one finger that passes to the other finger?
Infection from a rotten piece of meat can infect the colon. That is what happens with Pig Bel in the highlands of PNG. The whole colon starts to rot with what is called gas gangrene of the bowel caused by Enteritis necroticans.
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Under the local name, 'pig-bel', Enteritis necroticans was, until quite
Under the local name, 'pig-bel', Enteritis necroticans was, until quite
recently, endemic in the highlands of PNG. It is mainly a disease of children
with a ...
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