a complete arse
My friend is a chemical engineer. He works in a factory that makes loperamide, which happens to be the main active ingredient in Imodium. Part of my mate's job is to clean the equipment and ensure that there is no cross-contamination between drugs - y'know, no viagra in the laxatives, that kind of thing.

Anyway, one day he was helping his colleague to clean out the loperamide equipment when his colleague sneezed massively and, unfortunately, inhaled a huge dose of anti-diarrhoea chemicals. My friend informs me that the drug works by tightening the sphincter and the muscles of the intestine so that even if your bowels are functioning normally, nothing - absolutely nothing - is getting out.

Length? Three weeks of being physically incapable of having a shit.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 13:11, 2 replies)

I'd imagine
that Viagra in the laxatives would be less of a problem than the opposite situation!
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 13:39, closed)

Anti-diarrhoea chemicals
Christ! If that's how they work, all I have to say is that I'm glad I didn't take any on my trip to Russia/Mongolia/China. While greatly reducing the risk of pants-pebbledashery, I'm sure my bum-babies would have drilled their own escape-route if that had happened.

Would anti-constipation medicine be an antidote or just contibute to the pressure build-up?
( mistaspakkaman and the inedible shifting caterpillars, Fri 28 Mar 2008, 14:00, closed)